Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed this year.

Forty-one executions have been carried out so far in 2025, and, without intervention from government officials or the courts, another six will take place before January. Three are scheduled for this week: one each in Florida and Oklahoma on Thursday, and another in South Carolina on Friday.

Identifying a previous year in which the prevalence of executions in the U.S. rivaled the current one requires looking back at least decade. Whether or not the remaining six proceed as planned, the death penalty has already had its busiest year since 2012, when 43 people were

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