Three inmates were put to death by lethal injection on the same day in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama, marking the first triple execution in the US in 16 years. The executions involved Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez for a 2003 murder, Anthony Darrell Hines for a 1985 murder, and Jeremy Williams for the 2021 rape and murder of a child. Five states have carried out 22 executions so far this year, following 47 in the prior year.