Florida’s record execution spree in 2025 drove a sharp national uptick: Executions nearly doubled nationwide from 2024.

Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

The state led the nation in executions with 19 people put to death, some of whom committed crimes in the Tampa Bay area ...

The near-100% increase in executions was driven in large part by Florida, which at 19 executions counted for about 40% of the ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions ...

The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a record 19 executions in 2025 — and has carried out 17 so far — the highest ever in a single year in both the state and the U.S. since the 1970s. The state also ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...