US EditionU.S. Executions Highest in 15 Years Despite Low Public Support for Death Penalty
Florida leads with 19 executions, making up 40% of the nearly 50 total in 2025, driven by new state laws and political support despite declining public approval.
- On Monday, the DPIC's annual report showed 46 people were executed in 2025, with nearly 50 expected, as Florida drove the surge with 19 executions, about 40% of the total.
- Legislators in 11 states and the U.S. Congress introduced bills to expand capital punishment while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pushed for executions amid political framing and federal executions resumed after President Donald Trump returned to office.
- South Carolina's resumed firing-squad execution raised scrutiny over its protocol as the South Carolina Department of Corrections autopsy found two bullets largely missed Mikal Mahdi's heart, while nitrogen gas executions in Alabama and Louisiana took almost 40 minutes, with witnesses reporting prolonged gasping.
- Gallup's October poll found public support at a multi-decade low with 52% in favor and 44% opposed, while capital juries imposed 22 new death sentences and chose life in 56% of cases.
- Executions are concentrated in a few states, with four states accounting for roughly 72% of executions amid legal and legislative trends expanding executions.
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Texas, once the national leader in capital punishment, ranks far behind Florida in 2025 executions
Texas also saw counties set the fewest new execution dates in at least three decades, according to an annual report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Harris County was an outlier in that trend.
The number of executions almost doubled in 2025 compared to previous years, according to a report.
Increase in US executions largely driven by Florida, year-end report says
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Although there was a significant increase in executions in the U.S. in 2025, a smaller number of new death sentences was imposed, a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center found. The year-end report, published Dec. 15, said that by the end of 2025, if executions scheduled for Dec. 17 and 18 are carried out, there will have been 48 executions in the U.S., while 22 new sentences were imposed this year. New dea…
US juries increasingly rejecting death penalty: report
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released its annual report Monday, finding that, while the number of executions increased last year, the number of new death sentences decreased. The following is an overview of the report’s key findings. Death Sentences Decline, Executions Rise The report drew a contrast between new death sentences and number of executions, with the former totaling 22 and the latter 48. The Executive Director of the D…
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