A look at the status of US executions in 2025

Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U S and four other people are scheduled to be put to death in three states during the remainder of The latest was a Mississippi man who died by lethal injection Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer s wife in a ransom scheme A Florida man was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening becoming the seventh person executed in that state this year So far this year executions also have been carried out in Alabama Arizona Indiana Louisiana Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee and Texas Florida Tennessee and Texas have additional executions scheduled later this year Twenty-five executions were also carried out last year and in Those are the highest totals since there were in Here s a look at latest executions and those scheduled for the rest of the year by state Mississippi Richard Gerald Jordan the longest-serving man on Mississippi s death row was executed Wednesday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman Jordan was sentenced to death in January for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter in Harrison County After he kidnapped Marter Jordan took her to a forest and fatally shot her before calling her husband claiming she was safe and demanding Jordan filed multiple death sentence appeals all of which were denied Florida Thomas Lee Gudinas died by injection on Tuesday Gudinas was convicted in and sentenced to death for the rape and killing of Michelle McGrath near a central Florida bar Michael B Bell is scheduled to be executed on July for fatally shooting a man and woman outside a Jacksonville bar as part of an attempted revenge killing Bell was convicted in and sentenced to death for the murders of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith Tennessee Byron Black is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug Black was convicted in of three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of his girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters in Nashville Harold Nichols is also scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec Nichols was convicted of rape and first-degree felony murder in the death of Karen Pulley in Hamilton County Texas Blaine Milam is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept Milam was convicted of killing his girlfriend s -month-old daughter during what the couple had announced was part of an exorcism in Rusk County in East Texas in December Milam s girlfriend Jesseca Carson was also convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole Ohio Earlier this year Republican Gov Mike DeWine postponed five executions scheduled for All five have been delayed until In postponing the executions DeWine has cited the state s inability to secure the drugs used in lethal injections due to pharmaceutical suppliers unwillingness DeWine has mentioned that he does not anticipate any further executions will happen during his term which runs through Source