Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee Execute Inmates

Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee executed three men in one day, the first such event since 2010.

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3 states carry out executions in a single day, first time since 2010

Three men executed on same day in US for the first time in 15 years

Three states, three executions on the same day

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Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee executed Jeremy Williams, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez and Darrell Hines by lethal injection Thursday, the first time since 2010 that three U.S. executions occurred in one day. Williams, 42, was put to death in Alabama for the 2021 rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland. Oklahoma executed Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for murdering his common-law wife, Olimpia Fisher, in 2003, and Tennessee executed Hines for killing a motel maid in 1985.

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