If all executions go ahead, it will be first time in over 15 years there have been over three judicial killings in US in one day
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez has been put to death by the state of Oklahoma, in the first of three executions scheduled for Thursday in a rare triple procedure that underlines the renewed appetite in the US for state killings.
Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, was pronounced dead at 10:13am at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was sentenced to death for murdering his common-law wife Olimpia Fisher in 2003. He had unsuccessfully appealed for mercy, saying he was remorseful and had struggled all his life from mental illness.
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