Four executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday.

The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates' deaths will bring the national total of executions to 23 so far this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center which tracks the number. In 2024, there were 25 executions across the U.S.

While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall uptick in the use of capital punishment nationwide since January. They also come as the Trump administration seeks to resume death row executions at the federal level.

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