Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez for the 2003 murder of his wife, and Tennessee put Anthony Hines to death for the 1985 murder of a mother of four.

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.