A look at the status of US executions in 2025

Twenty-six men died by execution ordered by the court so far this year in the United States, and 10 other persons should be put to death in seven states during the rest of 2025.

The next executed execution is in Florida, when a man who killed his wife and two children should be put to death on July 31. Florida was also the last state to execute someone when Michael Bernard Bell died by lethal injection on July 15.

Meanwhile, Florida recently set its 10th execution of the year when the republican governor Ron Desantis signed a death mandate for a man who removed a woman from an insurance office and killed her 42 years ago. Kayle Bates is expected to be executed in August.

Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Utah also planned executions later this year.

Executions were carried out this year in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

The number of executions this year exceeds 25 executions carried out last year and in 2018. It is the highest total since 2015, when 28 people were put to death.

The increase in executions can be attributed to aggressive republican governors and lawyers who push to cross long call processes and to make executions, said John Blume, director of Cornell Death Pinnalty Project.

A radical executive decree signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in power aimed to urge prosecutors to ask for the death penalty and preserve the capital punishment in the United States can also have fueled the increase, said Blume.

This year, an execution except one occurred in the states led by republican governors, with Arizona except.

Here is an overview of recent executions and those planned for the rest of the year, by state:

Edward J. Zakrzewski should be put to death in Florida on July 31 for having killed his wife and two young children in 1994 after asking for a divorce.

He finally turned into police after the case was profiled in the television show “Unsolved Mysteries”.

Bates, 67, who is expected to be executed on August 19, was found guilty of first degree, kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted sexual drums on June 14, 1982, murder of Bay de Janet White.

Byron Black, 69, should die by lethal injection on August 5. Black was found guilty in 1989 of three heads of murder in the first degree for the death of her girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her two daughters in Nashville.

The Black lawyer asked a judge to demand that the ministry for the correction of Tennessee to deactivate a defibrillation device located similar to a cardiac stimulator in the moments before its execution.

A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday that the state could deactivate the cardiac regulation system in a hospital in the morning of its execution, rather than bringing a doctor or a technician to the execution chamber.

The black motion linked to his heart system came in a general challenge that he and other death detainees filed against the new state execution protocol, which entered into force this year. The trial was not until 2026.

Harold Nichols, 64, should also die by lethal injection on December 11. Nichols was found guilty of rape and criminal murder in the first degree during the death of Karen Pulley in 1988 in the county of Hamilton.

An Alabama judge postponed the execution of David Lee Roberts, who was to be put to death by gas nitrogen on August 21.

Roberts was found guilty of killing Annetra Jones in 1992 when he was a household house in Jones in Marion County. Prosecutors said Roberts had packed his personal effects, stolen money and drew on Jones three times in her head while she was sleeping on the sofa. Roberts set fire to the home to hide evidence.

A county judge of Marion published a stay so that Roberts could have a psychiatric assessment to determine if he is too sick mental to be put to death. The execution will be suspended at least until a report by the Ministry of Mental Health of Alabama is finished.

Geoffrey T. West, 49, is expected to die by nitrogen gaseous on September 25 for the murder of the registrar of the convenience store Margaret Parrish Berry during a flight in 1997 in Attalla.

If it is done, it would be the sixth execution of the country by gas nitrogen, an Alabama method began to use last year as an alternative to lethal injection. The method consists in providing gas nitrogen via a breathable mask to an inmate, which makes you lose consciousness of the person and die of a lack of oxygen.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, should die by shooting the team on September 5. He would only become the sixth American prisoner executed by the shooting team since 1977.

Menzies, who has been dementia, has been in the death corridor for 37 years for having removed and killed the mother of three from Maurine Hunsaker, 26, in 1986.

Judge Matthew Bates signed the death mandate a month after having ruled on Menzies “in a coherent and rational way” understands why he is faced with the execution despite the recent cognitive decline. Menzies lawyers asked for the court for a reassessment.

Blaine Milam, 35, should die by lethal injection on September 25. Milam was found guilty of having killed the 13 -month -old daughter of her girlfriend during what the couple said that was part of “exorcism” in Rusk county in eastern Texas in 2008.

Milam’s girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, was also found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life prison without parole.

Robert Roberson is expected to be executed on October 16.

Roberson, 58, could become the first person in the United States to death for a conviction for murder linked to shaken baby syndrome. He was found guilty of the 2 -year -old daughter’s murder in 2002, Nikki Curtis, in the city of Palestine in eastern Texas.

The prosecutors argued that he had violently rocked his daughter back and forth, causing a serious head trauma. His lawyers and some medical experts say that her daughter died not from abuse but complications related to pneumonia.

The Indiana set a provisional execution date of October 10 for Roy Lee Ward, who was found guilty of having raped and killed a 15 -year -old girl in 2001. But this date could change.

Lance C. Shockley is expected to be executed on October 14, according to the information center on the non -profit death penalty.

Shockley was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of the Missouri state patrol. Dewayne Graham in front of her home in Carter County in 2005.

The testimony of the trial said that Graham had been killed because he was investigating Shockley for manslaughter and left the scene of an accident.

Earlier this year, Republican Governor Mike Dewine postponed five executions scheduled for 2025. The five were delayed until 2028.

By postponing executions, Dewine quoted the inability of the State to secure the drugs used in lethal injections due to the reluctance of pharmaceutical suppliers.

Dewine said he did not provide for other executions that will occur during his mandate, which takes place until 2026.

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The journalist of Associated Press, Kim Chandler, contributed.