Three men convicted of killing nine people in federal drug-related crimes in Virginia have been scheduled to be executed during the same week in May, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday.
Richard Tipton is scheduled to be executed by injection on May 8, Cory Johnson on May 10 and James Roane Jr. on May 12, the bureau said.
It would be the most in one week since the federal government resumed executions in 2001. The Terre Haute prison is the only place housing federal Death Row inmates and the only place where they are executed.
The three were co-defendants in a large drug-trafficking organization, and a jury found them guilty in 1993 of murder as part of a criminal enterprise.
Since the federal government resumed executions, three men have been put to death at Terre Haute.
