Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in US

Meanwhile, a number of botched executions have raised alarm. An esti­mat­ed 3% of US exe­cu­tions rom 1890 to 2010 were botched, according to DPI, with lethal injection having the high­est rate of botched exe­cu­tions. In 2022, more than a third of executions in the US were botched or highly problematic, the organisation said.In May, Tennessee officials tried and failed to give Tony Von Carruthers, who had been on death row for decades, a lethal injection for over an hour. Blood streamed down his chest, and he repeatedly groaned and told prison staff he was in pain, according to witness statements.Governor Bill Lee, who granted Carruthers a one-year reprieve after the failed execution, has said that Carruthers' execution was not botched. He has instead said that the doctor simply could not establish IV access.But it remains to be seen if the execution of the three men on Thursday will go forward - or whether there will be a last minute reprieve.Getty ImagesPeople protested Idaho's decision to build a firing-squad execution chamberAnthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.In Alabama, Jeremy Williams, convicted for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2021, could be the southern state's first execution of 2026. Williams, who has dismissed his attorneys and has volunteered to be put to death, is slated to die by lethal injection and Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has said she does not plan to grant clemency.In Oklahoma, septuagenarian Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez has asked for no clemency and no mercy for the murder of a woman in 2003. He is also slated to die by lethal injection on Thursday, but his age, experts say, heightens his risk for a botched execution.