Jeremy Williams, 41, was among three men scheduled to be executed on the same day in the US, with Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama each set to carry out a death penalty case. The plan put Williams on the same day as Anthony Darrell Hines in Tennessee and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez in Alabama.
The three planned executions were described as the first same-day triple execution in the US in 16 years. They came as the country recorded 47 executions across 11 states in 2025, up from 25 in 2024.
Jeremy Williams in Oklahoma
Williams was scheduled for execution in Oklahoma. He was one of three people set for the same day, a schedule that tied together three separate states and placed all three cases on the same timeline.
Anthony Darrell Hines was scheduled in Tennessee and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez in Alabama. The same-day arrangement stood out because the source says no triple execution on one day had happened in the US for 16 years.
Executions in the US
The broader count showed 47 executions across 11 states in 2025. About 40% of those deaths were in Florida, where Robin Maher said, “He is the reason we are seeing a record number of executions. He is the reason why Florida is an outlier compared to the rest of the United States,” referring to Ron DeSantis.
That rise followed Donald Trump’s executive order on the first day of his second term in 2025, which reinstated the death penalty. The Department of Justice also expanded protocols to include additional manners of execution, such as firing squad, and readopted lethal injections.
Death penalty changes
Trump had earlier ordered 13 executions over a six month period in 2020, ending a nearly two-decade moratorium on the federal death penalty. In April, the Department of Justice said it had streamlined internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.
Florida also changed its law in 2023, lowering the number of jurors needed to recommend the death penalty from 12 to eight. Just over halfway into 2026, 12 of the 19 executions occurred in Florida, keeping the state central to the increase that began to accelerate in 2025.
Justin Mazzola said the impact of Trump’s changes will take time to measure: “Because of the length it takes for the actual case to happen, and then also all the appeals that are built in once there is a conviction,” The source did not say whether Williams, Hines or Cuesta-Rodriguez were executed later on Thursday.
