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Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection<\/a> Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.<\/p>\n A man in Tennessee faces execution for killing a motel maid. An Oklahoma man is scheduled to die for killing his girlfriend. And an Alabama man will be put to death after dropping all his appeals in the killing of a 5-year-old girl he paid her mother to abuse. <\/p>\n Eleven states carried out executions in 2025 in the U.S. If the Tennessee and Alabama deaths take place, six states will have had executions in 2026.<\/p>\n The last time three executions were held on the same day was Jan. 7, 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas put inmates to death. Three executions were scheduled on the same day in 2018, but only one went forward after a Texas man was granted a reprieve and prison officials in Alabama had problems<\/a> with the IV line.<\/p>\n Florida executed<\/a> two men on the same day<\/a> in July and has put 31 prisoners to death since the start of 2025.<\/p>\n Tennessee plans to execute Anthony Darrell Hines for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins.<\/p>\n Hines stabbed Jenkins to death while the 54-year-old was working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs. He was sentenced to death in 1986, won an appeal for a new sentencing hearing and was again sentenced to death in 1989.<\/p>\n Hines’ execution date comes just three months after the attempted lethal injection<\/a> of another man was called off because of a problem inserting an IV.<\/p>\n Hines, 66, appealed unsuccessfully to the governor and the courts, saying that the doctor who oversaw the May execution<\/a> was unqualified and likely to botch his execution as well. He said his thinness and muscular atrophy after two strokes mean he could face problems with an IV as well.<\/p>\n During the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers, the IV team established a primary line right away but then worked for more than an hour trying to insert a backup line. Carruthers’ lawyer witnessed the attempts<\/a> and said the team tried to insert an IV in Carruthers\u2019 arm, hand and foot before attempting to insert a central line.<\/p>\n In the end, Gov. Bill Lee called off the execution and gave Carruthers a one-year reprieve.<\/p>\n The state has declined to say whether the same doctor will preside over Hines\u2019 execution. Regardless, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Hines had not proven the doctor was unqualified and suggested the problems were an isolated mishap.<\/p>\n Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeremy Williams by lethal injection for the 2021 rape and murder of a 5-year-old Georgia girl.<\/p>\n Williams, who pleaded guilty to killing Kamarie Holland<\/a>, declined to appeal and asked for his death sentence to be carried out.<\/p>\n Williams, 42, raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sex act, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n Williams filmed his attack on the girl and kept her body to continue to abuse, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo see on video what he did to this baby, what a grown man could do to a child, it\u2019s shocking, it\u2019s horrible, it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a level of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n Williams also was a suspect in the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska but charges were not filed until 2022.<\/p>\n Corey Holland, Kamarie\u2019s father, said his daughter was an exuberant 5-year-old who loved princesses and made people laugh.<\/p>\n \u201cShe loved playing dress-up, all her little Halloween costumes and her princess stuff I got her. She liked anything girly,\u201d Corey Holland said.<\/p>\n It will be Alabama\u2019s first execution of the year if it goes forward. A nitrogen gas execution was halted in June after a federal judge ruled the method<\/a> unconstitutional.<\/p>\n The girl’s mother is serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to sex trafficking.<\/p>\n A man convicted of fatally shooting his girlfriend<\/a> at their Oklahoma City home in 2003 said he regrets killing her and didn’t ask a board for clemency.<\/p>\n