The Darkening of Capital Punishment The United States has long been associated with the practice of capital punishment, but recent developments suggest a shift in public opinion and state policies.
This week, three states – Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma – will execute inmates via lethal injection on the same day for the first time since 2010.
The cases themselves are tragic: Anthony Darrell Hines is set to be executed in Tennessee for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins; Jeremy Williams will face lethal injection in Alabama for the rape and murder of five year old Kamarie Holland in 2021; and Carlos Cuesta Rodriguez awaits execution in Oklahoma for fatally shooting his girlfriend Olimpia Fisher in 2003.