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Death penalty increases in the US: Three convicts will be executed on the same day

2026-08-12 22:25:22Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The three convicts to be executed

It has been 16 years since three people were executed on the same day in the US, but on Thursday, three men convicted of murder in different US states will face the death penalty.

The scheduled executions of prisoners Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, Jeremy Williams, 41, and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 71, in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma, respectively, are indicative of a significant increase in executions across the US.

Last year, in 2025, there were more than four times as many people sentenced to death than in 2021, even as juries and the American public in general became increasingly wary of its use.

So what is driving the growth, and is the American public keeping up with this trend?

President Donald Trump has long been a strong supporter of the death penalty, describing the death penalty as "an essential tool to deter and punish those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of deadly violence against American citizens."

In 2020, during his first term, he ended a nearly two-decade moratorium on the federal death penalty, ordering 13 executions over a six-month period.

While the moratorium was reinstated under President Biden, on the first day of Trump's second term in 2025, he signed an executive order reinstating the death penalty. However, no federal executions have been carried out since he signed it. In the US, both the federal government and local state authorities can order executions.


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