Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled to carry out executions on Thursday, August 13, 2026, marking the first time since 2010 that three people are expected to be executed on the same day in the United States.
All three inmates were sentenced to death for murder and are scheduled to die by lethal injection.
In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines is scheduled to be executed for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, a 54-year-old motel worker in Kingston Springs. Hines was initially sentenced to death in 1986 and received another death sentence in 1989 after being granted a new sentencing hearing.
In Alabama, 42-year-old Jeremy Williams is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the 2021 rape and murder of five-year-old Kamarie Holland. Williams pleaded guilty, waived his appeals and requested that his death sentence be carried out.
In Oklahoma, 70-year-old Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez is scheduled to be executed for the 2003 fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Olimpia Fisher. If carried out, it would be Oklahoma's third execution of 2026 and the 20th under Republican Governor Kevin Stitt.
Eleven US states carried out executions in 2025. If the scheduled executions in Tennessee and Alabama proceed, six states will have carried out executions in 2026.
The executions come as public support for the death penalty continues to decline in the United States. A recent Gallup poll found that about 52 percent of Americans consider the death penalty morally acceptable, the lowest level recorded since the 1970s.
The last time three executions were carried out on the same day was in 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas executed inmates.
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