A Florida man is set to be the 26th person executed in the US this year, surpassing 2024's total
So far, 25 men have been executed in 2025, tying the number of executions in 2024 and 2018. The number of executions has largely trended downward nationally this century after peaking with 98 in 1999. From 1995 to 2006, there were an average of about 67 executions per year.
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