1 of 3 | Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, on Thursday morning for the 2003 murder of his common-law wife, Olimpia Fisher, 43. Photo courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections/Website
Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Three states executed death row inmates on Thursday, marking the first time in more than 15 years that three executions were carried out in the United States on the same day.
The three men, all convicted of murder, were executed by lethal injection.
The last time three people were executed on the same day was 16 years ago, when, in 2010, three executions were carried out in Ohio, Texas and Louisiana, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.
It also raises the number of death row inmates executed so far this year to 21, following 47 for all of 2025, which was the most since 53 were killed in 2006.
