The United States car­ried out 47 exe­cu­tions in 2025, and Florida car­ried out 19 — the high­est num­ber in state his­to­ry and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record, accord­ing to a year-end report from Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP). Executions in Florida — which aver­aged one exe­cu­tion every 16 days from February 2025 through December 2025 — account­ed for 40% of the 47 exe­cu­tions nation­wide, mak­ing Florida a clear out­lier in the use of the death penal­ty in the United States. Setting Florida’s record-break­ing num­bers aside, 28 peo­ple were exe­cut­ed in 10 states in 2025, sim­i­lar to 2024’s total of 25 exe­cu­tions in nine states.

Prior to 2025, the only state that had ever exceed­ed 18 exe­cu­tions in a sin­gle year was Texas, which last did so in 2009. States exe­cut­ed pris­on­ers at high­er rates in the late 1990s and ear­ly 2000s, when pub­lic sup­port for the prac­tice was much high­er than it is today. Unlike most states, where courts and pros­e­cu­tors set exe­cu­tion dates, Florida’s gov­er­nor holds sole author­i­ty to sign death warrants.

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