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Why the death penalty is being used more in the US this year apnews.com/article/us-executions-2025-upcoming-florida-bf95609117487f4295d0b41e1b268c4a

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78 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 13h

The total for 2025 already far exceeds the number of executions carried out last year — 25 — and could be the highest since 2012, when 43 inmates were put to death, though still far below the modern peak of 98 executions in 1999.

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have carried out 76% of this year’s court-ordered killings.

“This is not an uptick of executions nationally — this is really down to just a few states,” said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

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

All but one of those states — Arizona — are run by Republican governors.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 13h

Good context

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 12h

I feel like Texas is really staying at the range it tends to be in.... A lot of the states are/have finalized there alternative methods since the drug cocktail that was used years ago became something states could not access anymore. That led to compound pharmacy and alternative methods that were tied up in court for years.

Plus the Trump Admin before and again now is in favor of it. Thats why Biden moved so many people off of Federal Death row.

I did see that Tennessee I think is set to execute its first women in something like 200 years