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John E. Winfield, John Ruthell Henry and Marcus Wellons are pictured from right to left.

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For death penalty critics, the past 24 hours in America have been a triple blow to their cause. In the past 24 hours in three separate states, three convicted killers have been put to death, all by controversial lethal injection.

According to CNN, what some see as the tragic trifecta was completed last night, when John Ruthell Henry, 63, was declared dead at 7:43 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Starke. He was convicted of stabbing his wife and 5-year-old son in 1985.

In Georgia, Marcus A. Wellons, 59, who was convicted in 1993 of raping and killing India Roberts, age 15, was declared dead at 11:56 p.m. Tuesday, CNN reported.

And in Missouri, John Winfield, who killed two women who were friends of his ex-girlfriend in 1996, was declared dead at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, the state Department of Public Safety said.

The triple executions were the first in the U.S. since Oklahoma's botched execution of Clayton Lockett in April, raising questions about lethal injection drug mixes and procedures.

Officials in Oklahoma stopped Lockett's execution after observing that the lethal injection drugs weren't being administered into his vein correctly. The convicted killer died of a heart attack shortly afterward.

As of Jun. 18, 2014, there have been 1,381 executions in the U.S. since 1976. Texas leads the U.S. in executions with 515. Oklahoma is in second with 111 executions and Virginia is in third with 110. The statistics are kept by the Death Penalty Information Center.

So where do you come down on this resumption of capital punishment in the US?

Is it a rush to judgment after troubling questions were raised about lethal injection?

Or is it the administration of justice to properly convicted and sentenced killers?

Tell us.