{"id":77356,"date":"2026-08-13T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/oklahoma-man-put-to-death-in-first-of-three-us-executions-scheduled-on-same-day\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:55:14","slug":"oklahoma-man-put-to-death-in-first-of-three-us-executions-scheduled-on-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/oklahoma-man-put-to-death-in-first-of-three-us-executions-scheduled-on-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma man put to death in first of three US executions scheduled on same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/13\/executions-oklahoma-alabama-tennessee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Oklahoma man put to death in first of three US executions scheduled on same day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/oklahoma-man-put-to-death-in-first-of-three-us-executions-scheduled-on-same-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oklahoma man put to death in first of three US executions scheduled on same day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}