Three convicted murderers executed by lethal injection in a single day across Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama

Three states, one day

Three convicted murderers were put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, 13 August 2026, in the US states of Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama. Carlos C., aged 70, was executed in Oklahoma for the 2003 murder of his partner. According to the prosecutor, he had stalked and abused the mother of two for months before shooting her twice in the face in their shared home. He died in the morning local time after receiving a lethal injection.

Anthony H. was pronounced dead at 10:43 local time in Tennessee. The state's Department of Correction in Nashville announced the execution. His last words were reported as:

“Grüßt meinen Sohn von mir.”

Shortly before the execution, H.'s defence team had petitioned the US Supreme Court, but the appeal was unsuccessful. The prison authorities cited the son of the woman H. had killed, noting that the attacker had tortured her and stabbed her 13 times in an assault 41 years earlier.

Jeremy W., aged 42, was executed in Alabama on Thursday evening local time. He had been sentenced to death for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl, a case that had triggered a large-scale search operation when the child disappeared.

Death penalty landscape

According to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, the death penalty is legal in more than two dozen of the 50 US states, though several no longer carry out executions in practice. Nationwide, 47 people were executed in 2025. Beyond lethal injection, executions in the United States are also carried out by electric chair or, more rarely, by firing squad.

The Death Penalty Information Center reports that at least nine further executions are scheduled for the current year, with the next one set for Tuesday, 18 August.

Public opinion

A recent representative survey by the Pew Research Center found that two-thirds of US adults (66%) support the death penalty for people convicted of murder. At the same time, a majority (59%) believe the death penalty does not have a deterrent effect on serious crime.

Support death penalty for murder66%

Say it does not deter serious crime59%

Support death penalty for murder

66 %

Say it does not deter serious crime

59 %

Data from the article text

The three same-day executions underscore the continued application of capital punishment across multiple states simultaneously, even as public opinion remains divided on whether it serves as an effective deterrent.