Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled to execute inmates via lethal injection on Thursday in what would be the first time since 2010 that three people are put to death on the same day in the United States.
In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines will be executed for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, a 54-year-old woman working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs. Hines was sentenced to death the following year and later won a new sentencing hearing, though he remains scheduled for execution.
Alabama plans to execute Jeremy Williams, 42, for the 2021 rape and murder of Kamarie Holland, 5, who was trafficked to him by her mother. Williams instructed his attorneys not to defend him in the case and ordered them not to appeal after his sentencing. According to reporting, Williams never expressed remorse for the murder, only saying that he was "sick." He will be the first person executed in Alabama after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on execution protocols.
The third execution is scheduled in Oklahoma, though specific details about that inmate were not provided in available reports.
All three inmates were convicted of murder. Two of them have not fought their executions, while one maintains his innocence.
The last time three executions occurred on the same day was in 2010, when Ohio, Texas and Louisiana each carried out lethal injections on the same date. Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, described simultaneous executions across three states as highly unusual.
Executions remain concentrated in a small number of states. Eleven states executed 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009. According to Maher, "You look at the country as a whole, you've just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty, executing people, and a small number of states that are still imposing new death sentences."
Nine more executions are scheduled for the remainder of 2026, including one on August 18 in Florida.
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