Tennessee put a man to death Thursday for killing a motel maid in 1985 in the second of three executions scheduled for the same day in the US.

This undated photo, courtesy of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), shows death row inmate Anthony Darrell Hines at an unknown location in Tennessee. (TDOC…

The executions come as a small number of states, including Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, drive execution numbers in the United States.