Three men were executed in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama on Thursday, August 13, marking the first time since 2010 that three inmates were put to death in the United States on the same day. Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, Anthony Darrell Hines and Jeremy Williams were each executed by lethal injection in separate cases, with the killings occurring hours apart.
As her daughter watched, he shot Fisher in the right eye. Police were attempting to enter the home when Fisher, still alive, tried to escape. Cuesta-Rodriguez then shot her in the other eye. She later died from her injuries.
Court records say Cuesta-Rodriguez woke at about 4:30 a.m. and confronted Fisher over accusations of infidelity. Court records say Jenkins was cleaning a room at a motel in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, on March 3, 1985, when Hines attacked her. He stole $100 from her, stabbed her and fled in her car, according to the records. Williams took Kamarie from her home in Columbus, Georgia, on December 13, 2021, after agreeing to pay the girl’s mother, Kristy Siple, to sexually abuse her, according to police accounts cited by USA TODAY.
Police said Siple was seeking money for drugs.
He was reportedly convinced Fisher was having an affair and stalked her when she was away from home. Jenkins’ family witnessed the execution. He later recalled the devastating loss at Williams’ trial.
His family said he had changed during his years on death row and remained remorseful. Fisher’s daughters chose not to witness the execution and said they would continue to remember their mother while raising their own families around the values she had taught them. Her son, Dennis Jenkins, described the lasting trauma of his mother’s killing, while her daughter, Melissa Jenkins, said the family had lived with the loss for four decades. She said the execution could not erase the pain but finally brought what the family considered justice. Kamarie’s father, Corey Holland, had full custody of his daughter but sometimes allowed her to stay with her mother, according to Edenfield. The family continues to mourn Kamarie, whom her father affectionately called “Princess.”
Prosecutors and court records cited by USA TODAY, Cuesta-Rodriguez’s behavior had become increasingly controlling and violent before the killing, according to family members.
He instructed his lawyers not to mount a defense at his 2024 trial and later told them not to appeal after he received a death sentence. Williams took an unusual approach during his capital case. That decision meant his case moved through the death-penalty process far more quickly than most capital cases, which can remain in appeals for years or decades.
