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Capital Punishment
Three Executions, One Random Thursday
What's going on: Three different people are set to be executed in the US today, all by lethal injection: Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, in Tennessee; Jeremy Williams, 41, in Alabama; and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 71, in Oklahoma. If the plans go through, it will be the first time the US has executed three people in a single day since 2010. According to officials, this is simply a scheduling coincidence, but it follows another rare event last month, when Florida executed two people in one day. Executions in the US are rising, driven by a small number of states in the South and Southwest, while others are moving to limit capital punishment. Eleven states executed 47 people in 2025 — the highest since 2009. So far, 19 people have been executed in 2026. By the end of today, that number is expected to be 22.
Divided opinions: The death penalty is currently legal at the federal level and in 27 states, although four of those have placed a moratorium on executions. President Donald Trump’s administration has made expanding it a focus, from having the Justice Department prioritize capital punishment for certain crimes to adopting firing squads. This is in sharp contrast to former President Joe Biden, who put a moratorium on federal capital punishment and commuted 37 death row sentences to life in prison. Death penalty critics argue it meets the definition of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment, point out that Black and Hispanic defendants are disproportionately sentenced to death, and say that the risk of executing an innocent person is too great. However, a recent Pew Research survey shows that public support for the death penalty has increased in recent years: 66% are now in favor of it for those convicted of murder, up from 60% in 2021.
