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Texas' use of the death penalty declines
Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost ...
Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...
Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...
Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...
Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.
So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...
The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...
This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...
Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...
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