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Three inmates were executed on same day in US for first time since 2010
The executions capped a year of rising capital punishment, with 21 carried out nationwide and nearly a dozen more scheduled, the Death Penalty Information Center said.
- On Thursday, Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the 2003 killing of his common-law wife, Olimpia Fisher.
- This execution was one of three scheduled across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the first time in nearly 16 years that three inmates were executed on the same day.
- During his July clemency hearing, Cuesta-Rodriguez expressed remorse for the 2003 killing, telling the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board he did not deserve mercy but sought to apologize to Fisher's family.
- Separately, Tennessee executed Anthony Darrell Hines on Thursday for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, after the Tennessee Supreme Court rejected his legal challenge regarding the execution team's qualifications.
- Alabama was also scheduled to execute Jeremy Williams on Thursday for the 2021 murder of five-year-old Kamarie Holland, completing the rare triple execution day.
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Alabama man put to death for the murder of a 5-year-old girl in last of three U.S. executions in a day
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.
·New York, United States
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On Thursday, three death sentences were carried out in the United States. The condemned were executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Three executions in one day have not been carried out in the United States for over 16 years, media reports point out.
·Warsaw, Poland
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In the US, three executions have been carried out on a single day for the first time since 2010.
·Germany
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