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

Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death, cementing the lowest bar in ...

The kingdom’s 2025 toll of 356 has been reported as a record for Saudi Arabia, beating 2024’s record of 338, by multiple ...

Saudi Arabia executed a record 356 people in 2025, mostly in drug cases, deepening criticism of Riyadh’s sweeping crackdown ...

Florida executed a record-breaking 19 death row inmates in 2025, nearly doubling the national average, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This surge in executions comes ...

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

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

In response to the August murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, House Bill 307, later titled “Iryna’s Law,” was proposed in the state legislature and became law less than two weeks later.

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

Alabama plans to execute Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who did not kill my father.