Killings scheduled in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina despite concern over states’ methods
Four executions are scheduled across the US this week, marking a sharp increase in killings as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty despite growing concerns about states’ methods.
Executions are set to take place in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. A fourth, scheduled in Oklahoma, has been temporarily blocked by a judge, but the state’s attorney general is challenging the ruling.
The killings are being carried out by Republican-run states where civil rights lawyers say past executions have been botched and tortuous and included the killing of people who have said they were wrongfully convicted and subject to racially biased proceedings.
Nineteen people have been executed in the US in 2025 so far, and if this week’s four executions proceed, along with two more scheduled for later in June, the country will see 25 executions by the end of the month – the same number of killings carried out in all of 2024. In the first five months of 2025, the US has carried out the highest number of executions in a decade year-to-date, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that tracks capital punishment.
