{"id":34865,"date":"2025-06-26T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-executions-are-scheduled-in-4-different-states-this-week-amid-an-uptick-nationwide\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:30:22","slug":"4-executions-are-scheduled-in-4-different-states-this-week-amid-an-uptick-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-executions-are-scheduled-in-4-different-states-this-week-amid-an-uptick-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"4 executions are scheduled in 4 different states this week, amid an uptick nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates&#8217; deaths will bring the national total of executions to 23 so far this year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/executions\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Death Penalty Information Center<\/a> which tracks the number. In 2024, there were 25 executions across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall uptick in the use of capital punishment nationwide since January. They also come as the Trump administration <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/attorney-general-pam-bondi-review-trump-prosecutions-sanctuary-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">seeks to resume death row executions<\/a><\/span> at the federal level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about the executions that have been ordered this week.<\/p>\n<h2>Anthony Wainwright, Florida<\/h2>\n<p>Florida inmate <a href=\"https:\/\/acis-api.flcourts.gov\/courts\/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13\/cms\/case\/992bacd1-d792-4538-a96e-912eddd2ad1c\/docketentrydocuments\/59856300-069a-4ba3-b658-413435fec0a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Wainwright<\/a>, 54, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead Tuesday night at Florida State Prison near Starke, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>His death warrant, issued by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, set a weeklong window for the execution to take place. The window started at noon local time on Tuesday. Wainwright&#8217;s execution was the sixth in Florida in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wainwright was sentenced to death in 1995, after receiving multiple convictions related to a &#8220;crime spree&#8221; the previous year, which included the abduction, rape and murder of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, according to court documents. He and an accomplice, Richard Hamilton, were found to have committed the crimes after escaping prison in North Carolina in 1994.<\/p>\n<h2>Gregory Hunt, Alabama<\/h2>\n<p>Alabama inmate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doc.alabama.gov\/NewsRelease.aspx?article=EXECUTION+SET+FOR+ALABAMA+DEATH+ROW+INMATE+GREGORY+HUNT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gregory Hunt<\/a>, 65, was executed Tuesday by nitrogen asphyxiation and declared dead at a south Alabama prison, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt received capital punishment after his conviction for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane, according to the state&#8217;s Department of Corrections. The death warrant, signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, established a 30-hour time frame for the execution to occur, starting at 12 a.m. local time Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt is the fifth person in Alabama to die by\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-alan-eugene-miller-secrecy-corrections-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nitrogen hypoxia<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 a controversial method in which the inmate is deprived of oxygen through inhalation of pure nitrogen.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/state-and-federal-info\/state-by-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">states that still practice capital punishment<\/a>\u00a0faced difficulties obtaining drugs for\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/michael-tanzi-execution-lethal-injection-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">lethal injections<\/a><\/span>, nitrogen hypoxia was developed as a workaround to the primary method used around the country. Execution by nitrogen asphyxiation has been the subject of intense public scrutiny within the U.S. and overseas, with U.N.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-briefing-notes\/2024\/01\/us-alarm-over-imminent-execution-alabama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">human rights advocates arguing<\/a>\u00a0that it &#8220;could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under international human rights law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alabama carried out the country&#8217;s first known execution with the method on\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kenneth-eugene-smith-executed-by-nitrogen-hypoxia-in-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kenneth Smith<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in January 2024. Since then, Louisiana became the only other state to\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louisiana-death-row-inmate-first-nitrogen-gas-execution\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">execute a death row inmate with nitrogen gas<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in March of this year.<\/p>\n<h2>John Fitzgerald Hanson, Oklahoma<\/h2>\n<p>The execution of <a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoma.gov\/oag\/news\/newsroom\/2025\/may\/drummond-commends-pardon-and-parole-board-for-clemency-rejection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Fitzgerald Hanson<\/a>, also known as George John Hanson, 61, was scheduled for Thursday in Oklahoma \u2014 but a judge on Monday granted a temporary stay of the execution. That stay was later vacated and he was put to death by lethal injection.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson&#8217;s lawyers had argued he did not receive a fair\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oklahoma-inmate-hanson-lethal-injection-execution-aff7e490a53b1003b88b38f9e7d13b36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clemency hearing last month<\/a>\u00a0before the state&#8217;s five-member Pardon and Parole Board. They claimed board member Sean Malloy was biased because he worked for the Tulsa County District Attorney&#8217;s Office when Hanson was being prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/richard-glossip-oklahoma-attorney-general-gentner-drummond-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond<\/a><\/span>\u00a0argued the district judge doesn&#8217;t have the authority to stay the execution and has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate it.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson was convicted of capital murder in Oklahoma for the 1999 death of 77-year-old Mary Bowles in Tulsa, according to court records. In order to carry out Hanson&#8217;s death sentence, Drummond requested his extradition back into the state from Louisiana, where the inmate had been incarcerated for decades while serving a separate life sentence for robbery.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oklahoma-execution-death-row-hanson-23de2056f227fac4b834455cf520aa8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transfer to death row<\/a>\u00a0was expedited by the Trump administration. Hanson was\u00a0the state&#8217;s second execution this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Stephen Stanko, South Carolina<\/h2>\n<p>South Carolina is set to execute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/24\/24-6420\/354486\/20250331224908610_Stanko%20BIO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Stanko<\/a>, 57, by lethal injection Friday for the 1997 murder of Laura Ling. It will be the state&#8217;s fourth execution this year and its second using lethal drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two death row inmates in South Carolina\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/south-carolina-execution-firing-squad-mikal-mahdi\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died by<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/south-carolina-executes-mikal-mahdi-firing-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">firing squad<\/a><\/span>\u00a0this year after the state legislature approved the method partly due to prison officials not being able to obtain\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/firing-squad-execution-electric-chair-south-carolina-bill\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">drugs needed for lethal injections<\/a><\/span>. Both of the inmates chose to die by bullets instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">The Associated  Press<\/span> and <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kiki-intarasuwan\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kiki  Intarasuwan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/emily-mae-czachor\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Emily Mae  Czachor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emily Mae Czachor is a news editor at CBSNews.com. 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