Three states prepare to execute killers Thursday in same-day event not seen since 2010

Three men in three different states are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday in an unusual same-day cluster of executions across the U.S. Tennessee is set to execute Anthony Darrell Hines for the murder of a motel maid, while Alabama plans to put Jeremy Williams to death for raping and killing a 5-year-old girl after paying her mother $2,500 to let the child perform a sexual act. Oklahoma is also scheduled to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez for killing his girlfriend. The Ass