There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

The first execution was carried out on Friday in South Carolina. Another death row inmate in Missouri was put to death Tuesday evening. If the three remaining scheduled executions in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas are carried out this week, it will mark the first time in more than 20 years — since July 2003 — that five were held in seven days. That...