For the first time in 16 years... 3 US states carry out 3 lethal injection executions in a single day
In a rare development that has brought the death penalty back to the forefront of debate in the United States, three U.S. states carried out executions by lethal injection of three inmates in a single day, marking the first such occurrence since 2010, according to The Associated Press and U.S. media outlets.
Tennessee and Oklahoma began executing two inmates just 30 minutes apart yesterday, Thursday, before Alabama followed suit hours later.
Although the coincidence of the three executions resulted from overlapping scheduling, it highlighted an increasing pace of death penalty enforcement in the United States. Eleven states carried out a total of 47 executions in 2025, the highest number since 2009, when 52 inmates were executed.
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In Tennessee, 66-year-old Anthony Darryl Dougherty Hines was executed after being convicted of murdering a woman in 1985, according to U.S. media.
In Oklahoma, 70-year-old Carlos Quista-Rodriguez was executed after being convicted of murder in a shooting incident that occurred in 2003.
In Alabama, 42-year-old Jeremy Williams was executed, convicted of raping and killing a five-year-old child.
Florida recorded the highest number of executions in 2025, with 19, followed by Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas, each with five executions.
Of the total executions carried out last year, 39 were conducted by lethal injection, three by firing squad, and five by nitrogen asphyxiation, a method that involves pumping nitrogen gas into a mask fixed to the inmate’s face until death by suffocation.
The United Nations has condemned the use of nitrogen gas in executions, considering it a cruel and inhumane method.
On the political and legislative front, 23 U.S. states have permanently abolished the death penalty, while three other states—California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania—have imposed temporary moratoriums on its enforcement.
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In contrast, a more stringent federal trend is emerging. President Donald Trump has called for expanding the application of the death penalty to cover the "most heinous crimes," while the Department of Justice has proposed expanding approved execution methods to include firing squad, gas, and electrocution.
