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Six prisoners of mortal rows were performed in the US so far this year compared to two until this moment last year.

Robin Maher said, Executive Director of the Information Center for Fatal Penalties Newsweek that numbers do not necessarily indicate that executions are on the rise.

“Given the executions we scheduled all over the rest of 2025. years, we would finish quite close to where we were last year for the total number of executions,” Maher said.

There are currently 13 upcoming executions scheduled for this year. Maher noted that “probably” is that additional executions will be scheduled.

Why is it important

The death penalty is used as a form of criminal penalty in 27 states. This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where the governors currently published the execution pending.

Maher said there was “growing discomfort” with the death penalty.

“Public opinion now remains in five decades low, with barely 53 percent of people who say they are in favor of the death penalty and the increasing number of people who oppose” Maher said.

The support level also varies throughout the generations. Less than half of the Millennium and Gene z adults support the death penalty.

What to know

2024. In the nine states, 25 mortal row prisoners were performed.

The number of executions each year remained underneath 30 years almost a decade.

“If you look at a few years, you can see a much larger number of executions,” Maher said. “In 2009. We had 52 executions, and that number shrinks almost every year, with several variations over the years, especially affected pandemics.”

Mostly the trend of falling execution can be attributed to multiple factors, according to Maher.

“One is that we saw a series of people who are innocent, wrongly convicted and released from the death order,” Maher said. “And I think the spectrum of innocent people convicted of death really changed public opinion.”

Maher said that there is also public disapproval of repulsive executions, delays to individuals with a mental illness to death and the amount of money spent on executions.

What do people say

Maher, in an interview with Newsweek: “I think that people also objected to the increased amount of money consumed by the death penalty and the taxpayers are increasingly saying that they would like to have those taxpayers spent on other priorities, such as hospitals and schools and schools and schools and infrastructure.”

What happens next

The following execution is scheduled for Thursday in Texas. David Leonard wood is expected to kill deadly injection. The Step step He wrote the wood and his victims, “Shocked wave hit by El Paso in the late 1980s, because he missed nine women and girls buryed six of his victims in the northeast El Paso. Today they disappeared in northeast.”

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