The three death row prisoners set for execution on ThursdayThe US is set to carry out three executions in a single day on Thursday (local time), marking the first time in 16 years that three people are put to death on the same day in the America.The executions will be carried out in three different states: Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma. The death row prisoners are scheduled to be administered lethal injections.TennesseeTennessee plans to execute Anthony Darrell Hines, three months after an attempted lethal injection of another inmate was halted over difficulties inserting an IV line. The failed execution raised concerns over the challenges states can face in establishing IV access.During Tony Carruthers’ attempted execution in May, medical staff established a primary IV line but spent more than an hour trying to insert a required backup line. The execution was eventually called off, and Carruthers received a one-year reprieve.Hines, 66, has argued that his health problems, including two strokes that left him partially paralysed, could make his execution more difficult. He has unsuccessfully sought intervention from the governor and courts, arguing that the doctor who oversaw Carruthers’ attempted execution was "unqualified" and could face similar problems during his execution.Governor Bill Lee has declined to intervene, while the Tennessee Supreme Court last week rejected Hines’ request for a stay. The state has not disclosed whether the same doctor will oversee the process, while the court found Hines had not established that the doctor was unqualified.Hines was convicted of stabbing Catherine Jean Jenkins to death in 1985 while she 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 received another death sentence in 1989.AlabamaIn Alabama, Jeremy Williams, 42, is scheduled to be for the 2021 rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland, a Georgia girl. Williams pleaded guilty and has asked for his death sentence to be carried out.Williams raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sexual activity. He filmed the assault and kept the victim’s body afterward. He was also charged in 2022 with the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska.If carried out, the execution will be Alabama’s first this year. A nitrogen gas execution was halted in June after a federal judge ruled the method "unconstitutional."OklahomaOklahoma is scheduled to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend, Olimpia Fisher.Fisher was preparing to leave Cuesta-Rodriguez when he shot her in one eye, waited about eight minutes as she called for help and then fired the fatal shot into her other eye.Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 last month against recommending clemency. Cuesta-Rodriguez’s lawyers had sought a recommendation for life without parole, citing his troubled childhood and mental health problems, including brain damage, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression with psychotic episodes.Cuesta-Rodriguez, however, told the board he did not want clemency and wanted Fisher’s two daughters to know that he "regretted" the killing. Speaking through a Spanish-language translator, he expressed "remorse" for what he had done.