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The U.S. has seen 35 executions so far in 2025, with seven more scheduled for later this month. This year's total already surpasses last year's 25 executions and could be the highest since 2012. Florida, Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina have carried out 76% of this year's executions.

Justices rejected arguments about the abuse Victor Tony Jones suffered at the now-shuttered Okeechobee School.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County, as the state continues a record-setting year for executions.

Veterans will present a letter to the governor on Wednesday in Tallahassee, urging him to reconsider the scheduled Aug. 19 execution of Kayle Bates, a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. The letter is signed by more than 130 veterans.

Florida has three executions set to take place over the next month, including man convicted of fatally shooting three people and wounding another person was added to the queue.

Florida plans to execute Michael Bernard Bell on Tuesday for a 1993 double murder outside a bar. This would mark the 26th execution in the U.S. this year, tying totals from 2024 and 2018.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling death of Janet Acosta.

Nearly four decades after murdering Georgianna Worden, a mother, and teenage babysitter Karen Slattery, Duane Owen was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison.

Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.

Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.

Both executions and death sentences have declined dramatically since their peak in the late 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.