Five death row inmates in the U.S. are expected to be executed in the coming days, potentially bringing the total for the year to 18.
The upcoming executions are scheduled for Friday, Tuesday and Thursday in South Carolina, Texas, Missouri, Alabama and Oklahoma.
“I hope we never get so used to executions that this number is ever normal,” Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told Newsweek . “It is an unusual number of executions to happen in this short a period of time.”…