What's driving the rise in U.S. death row executions in 2025?
Coronavirus
Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed this year. Forty-one executions have been carried out so far in 2025, and, without intervention from government officials or the courts, another six will take place before January. Three are scheduled for this week: one each in Florida and Oklahoma on Thursday, and another in South Carolina on
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