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Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday and Alabama followed suit hours later as U.S. states executed three men by lethal injection in one day for the first time since 2010.
The Tennessee man was executed for killing a motel maid in 1985 and the Oklahoma man for killing his girlfriend in 2003. In Alabama, a man was put to death for killing a 5-year-old girl he had offered to pay her mother to abuse.
Having three executions in one day was a coincidence in scheduling, but reflected a trend of increased executions in the U.S. Eleven states executed a total of 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009. With Thursday\u2019s injections, 22 executions have been carried out this year in the U.S. with nearly a dozen more scheduled.
The last time three executions were carried out on the same day was on Jan. 7, 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas put inmates to death. Three executions were scheduled on the same day in 2018, but only one went forward after a Texas man was reprieved and Alabama prison officials had problems<\/a> with the IV line.
Florida<\/a> executed two men the same day<\/a> in July and has executed 31 overall since the start of 2025.
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, received an injection<\/a> at the state penitentiary in McAlester in Oklahoma\u2019s third execution this year.
Cuesta-Rodriguez turned his head toward two relatives watching and mouthed \u201cI love you\u201d but had no last statement. He was declared dead at 10:13 a.m. after several minutes of labored breathing.
Convicted of murdering his girlfriend<\/a> at their Oklahoma City home in 2003, Cuesta-Rodriguez had said he regretted killing Olimpia Fisher and told a board he didn\u2019t want clemency. Fisher, 43, planned to leave Cuesta-Rodriguez when he shot her.
Fisher\u2019s daughters, Cinthya Allen and Katya Wallis, said in a statement they hoped the execution brings awareness to preventing domestic violence, adding they are \u201craising our families to reflect the love and faith in God that she taught us.\u201d
Anthony Darrell Hines was executed in Tennessee for the 1985 stabbing death of Catherine Jean Jenkins, 54, as she worked as a motel maid in Kingston Springs.
Hines said \u201cnot right now, thank you\u201d when asked if he had final words, then said, \u201cTell my son hello.\u201d
Hines\u2019 son witnessed the execution. He reconnected with his father four days earlier after not seeing him since he was 3 years old.
Minutes after the execution chamber curtain opened, Hines asked his spiritual adviser: \u201cHow long do I have?\u201d Soon afterward, witnesses heard groans and heavy breathing while the adviser put her hands on his shoulders and prayed. Hines was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m.
Afterward, Jenkins\u2019 son said his mother had only a plastic spray bottle to defend against Hines\u2019 knife.
\u201cI hope he felt severe pain because what he did to my mother is nothing compared to what he may have just gone through,\u201d Dennis Jenkins said.
Hines\u2019 execution comes three months after another man\u2019s attempted lethal injection<\/a> was stopped after medical staff couldn\u2019t establish a backup IV line for over an hour.
Hines, 66, appealed unsuccessfully, saying the doctor who oversaw the May execution<\/a> was unqualified and likely to botch his execution as well.
Alabama executed Jeremy Williams for the 2021 rape and murder of the young Georgia girl.
\u201cI want to thank God for forgiving me for my sins so I can meet him in peace,\u201d Williams said on the gurney. He rocked his head back and forth, smiled and appeared to sing or speak before becoming still. A member of his family cried quietly throughout, and Williams was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.
Williams, who pleaded guilty to killing Kamarie Holland<\/a>, had written the Alabama attorney general\u2019s office seeking an immediate execution date so his victim\u2019s family \u201cmay have some type of closure.\u201d
The 42-year-old raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sex act, prosecutors said, adding he filmed his attack.
\u201cThe unspeakable nature of this crime is exactly why we have the death penalty statute,\u201d Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement afterward.
The mother is serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to sex trafficking.
Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey described Kamarie\u2019s final moments as \u201chorrific.\u201d
\u201cThat baby didn\u2019t die in peace,\u201d he said at a later news conference, recalling Williams\u2019 last words about dying in peace.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor, who called the case the worst he\u2019d investigated in 39 years of law enforcement, said he believed Williams sought swift execution over worries about how he would be treated in prison.
\u201cHe didn\u2019t want to look over his shoulder for 30 years, in my opinion,\u201d Taylor said.
It was Alabama\u2019s first execution this year. A nitrogen gas execution was blocked in June after a federal judge ruled the method<\/a> unconstitutional.
Williams also was a suspect in the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska, but charges weren\u2019t filed until 2022.
Corey Holland, Kamarie\u2019s father, had said she was an exuberant child who loved princesses and made people laugh.
\u201cShe loved playing dress-up, all her little Halloween costumes and her princess stuff I got her,\u201d he said.
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