Anthony Darrell Hines, Jeremy Williams and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez were executed the same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma respectively — the first triple same-day execution in the US in 16 years. It comes amid a sharp national rise: 47 executions across 11 states in 2025, more than four times the 2021 total, up from 25 in 2024.
Roughly 40% of 2025's executions occurred in Florida alone, a trend experts attribute largely to Governor Ron DeSantis, who has championed legal changes including lowering the jury threshold for death sentences from unanimous to 8-4. Trump signed an executive order in his first day back in office reinstating the federal death penalty and encouraging states to seek it more broadly, though no federal executions have occurred under it yet.
Drug shortages from pharmaceutical companies opposing their use in executions have pushed some states toward alternative methods, including South Carolina's 2025 adoption of firing squads. An estimated 3% of US executions from 1890 to 2010 were botched, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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