Four executions are scheduled in four states over four days this week

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls for the death penalty’s expansion.

The executions are slated to begin Tuesday, when Alabama is scheduled to put Gregory Hunt to death for the murder of Karen Lane. On the same day, Florida plans to execute Anthony Wainwright for the murder of Carmen Gayheart.

On Thursday, Oklahoma says it will execute John Hanson for the murder of Mary Agnes Bowles. And a day later, Stephen Stanko is scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina for the murder of Henry Lee Turner.

While a string of executions is “not that unusual,” according to Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, t