US carries out first triple execution in 16 years

Murderers on death row in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama were executed within hours of each other through lethal injection, USA Today reported.

Three conservative states plan to carry out a rare triple execution Thursday involving men ages 42 to 70, two of whom are convicted of murdering women, and one is convicted of raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl. For the first time in over a decade, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Tennessee plan to execute three men by ...