This State Has The Highest Number Of Executions So Far In 2025
Twenty-nine men died this year by an execution ordered by the court in the United States, and this number should increase Thursday while Florida is preparing to execute Curtis Windom, 59, via lethal injection.
Why it matters
The 29 executions carried out so far exceed 25 executions last year last year. It is also the largest number of executions in the United States since 2014, when 35 people have been put to death.
Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Utah have planned executions for later this year.
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What to know
Florida has executed more people in 2025 than any other state, and Windom will be the 11th person to be put to death in the state of Sunshine this year. Here are the American states that have been sentenced to death so far this year, in order of the number of detainees who have been executed, according to data from the Information Center on the Death Penaliest:
- Florida (Windom will be 11th)
- South Carolina (4)
- Texas (4)
- Alabama (3)
- Oklahoma (2)
- Tennessee (2)
- Indiana (1)
- Louisiana (1)
- Mississippi (1)
The execution of Windom on Thursday comes after being sentenced and sentenced to death for having killed his girlfriend, his mother and a man who had told him $ 2,000 in 1992. The Supreme Court rejected Wednesday the Windom final appeal for a suspension of execution.
Florida should also execute a 12th man, David Joseph Pittman, 63, September 17.
President Donald Trump, on the other hand, adopted a hard position on the fight against crime and the application of public order and encouraged the pursuit of the death penalty against certain people who commit violent crimes.
He signed a decree on January 20 – his first day of power – leading the Attorney General to ensure that states have enough fatal injectable drugs to perform executions.
The president also urged the Attorney General to ask for the death penalty “independently of the other factors” in cases involving the murder of the police or other capital crimes “committed by a foreigner illegally present in this country”. This directive was part of Trump’s broader repression against the application of immigration and border security.
Earlier this week, Trump also said that anyone killing someone in Washington, DC, should be subject to capital punishment.
“Everyone murders something in the capital, the capital punishment,” said Trump, addressing journalists at a cabinet television meeting. “If someone kills someone in the capital, Washington, DC, we will ask for the death penalty, and it is a very strong preventive. And all those who heard it agree.”
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The Associated Press helped to report to this story.
