As of 2025-11-20, Florida had carried out 17 executions in 2025, the most executions of any U.S. state in 2025; Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas had carried out five executions each in 2025.
November 20, 2025
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temporal
State-level counts of executions reported for the year 2025.
As of 2025-11-13, 40 men had died by court-ordered execution in the United States in 2025.
November 13, 2025
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temporal
Count of court-ordered executions in the U.S. for the year 2025 up to the stated date.
Florida's lethal injection protocol uses three drugs administered in sequence: a sedative, a paralytic, and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
October 28, 2025
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procedural
Description of the drug combination used in Florida's lethal injections.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, Florida's highest annual execution tally on record was eight people in 2014.
January 01, 2014
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historical
Historical comparison of annual execution totals in Florida following the 1976 restoration of the death penalty.