Three killers to face lethal injection on the same day in bizarre coincidence not seen in more than 15 years

Published: 06:46, 13 August 2026 | Updated: 06:48, 13 August 2026 Three men across the US are set to be executed by lethal injection on the same day, marking the first time in over 15 years that three executions have coincided.  Anthony Darrell Hines of Tennessee, Jeremy Williams of Alabama and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez of Oklahoma are each scheduled to be executed Thursday after spending years on death row.  The last time three executions took place on the same day was more than 16 years ago, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas each put an inmate to death on January 7, 2010.  In Tennessee, 66-year-old Anthony Darrell Hines is set to face lethal injection for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins.  Jenkins was stabbed to death by Hines while she was working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs. Hines was sentenced to death in 1986, successfully appealed for a new sentencing hearing and received the same punishment again in 1989. His execution date comes just three months after another Tennessee inmate, Tony Carruthers, had his lethal injection called off because officials struggled to insert an IV. Hines appealed unsuccessfully to the governor and the courts, warning that the same doctor who oversaw the botched May execution was unqualified and could struggle to execute him as well. Three men across the US are set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday, marking the first time in over 15 years that three executions have coincided (photo shows gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary) In Tennessee, 66-year-old Anthony Darrell Hines is set to face lethal injection for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, whom he stabbed to death while she was working as a motel maid  He argued that his thin frame and muscular atrophy following two strokes could make inserting an IV particularly difficult.  Officials have declined to reveal whether the same doctor will oversee Hines' execution, while the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Hines had not shown the doctor was unqualified and indicated the earlier problems were an isolated incident. Meanwhile, 42-year-old Jeremy Williams is set to face lethal injection in Alabama for the 2021 rape and murder of a young Georgia girl.  Williams raped and strangled five-year-old Kamarie Holland after allegedly offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sex act, prosecutors said. He filmed the attack and kept the girl's body to continue abusing her. 'To see on video what he did to this baby, what a grown man could do to a child, it's shocking, it's horrible, it's disgusting,' Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey said, according to the Associated Press. 'It's just a level of evil.' He was also a suspect in the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska, but charges were not filed against him until 2022.  Williams, who pleaded guilty to Holland's murder, declined to appeal and asked for his death sentence to be carried out.  Her father, Corey Holland, remembered his daughter as an exuberant little girl who adored princesses and brought laughter wherever she went.  Jeremy Williams, 42, is set to face lethal injection in Alabama for the 2021 rape and murder of a young Georgia girl Williams raped and strangled five-year-old Kamarie Holland after allegedly offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sex act, prosecutors said. He filmed the attack and kept the girl's body to continue abusing her 'She loved playing dress-up, all her little Halloween costumes and her princess stuff I got her. She liked anything girly,' he said.  If carried out, it will be Alabama's first execution of the year. A nitrogen gas execution scheduled in June was halted after a federal judge ruled that the method was unconstitutional.  Holland's own mother is also behind bars, serving a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to sex trafficking.  In Oklahoma, 70-year-old Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez is set to face lethal injection for murdering his girlfriend at their Oklahoma City home in 2003.  Olimpia Fisher, 43, was planning to leave the relationship when Cuesta-Rodriguez shot her in one eye, then waited eight minutes as she screamed for help before firing the fatal shot into her other eye.  'He made her suffer because she dared to live beyond his control,' Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond told the state's Pardon and Parole Board last month. Cuesta-Rodriguez, who is set to be executed at the state penitentiary in rural McAlester, said he regrets killing Fisher and did not ask the board for clemency.  The board voted 3-1 last month against recommending clemency for Cuesta-Rodriguez.  In Oklahoma, 70-year-old Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez is set to face lethal injection for murdering his girlfriend at their Oklahoma City home in 2003  Holland's own mother is also behind bars, serving a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to sex trafficking Florida executed two men on the same day just last month, bringing the state's total to 31 executions since the start of 2025 (photo shows Florida Department of Corrections) His attorneys had urged the board to spare his life, citing his difficult childhood in Cuba and arguing that he suffered from brain damage, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression with psychotic episodes.  Cuesta-Rodriguez will be Oklahoma's third execution of the year and the 20th under Republican Gov Kevin Stitt, who is set to leave office in January after eight years.  Three executions were also scheduled for the same day in 2018, but only one went ahead after a Texas inmate was granted a reprieve and Alabama officials struggled to establish an IV line.  Florida executed two men on the same day just last month, bringing the state's total to 31 executions since the start of 2025.