This year, the United States has witnessed the execution of 23 men, as ordered by the courts, with plans to execute six more individuals across four different states before 2025 ends. The forthcoming executions are of two men scheduled in Florida and Mississippi on consecutive days, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. The most recent execution prior to these was of a man in South Carolina on June 13.
So far in 2025, executions have been administered in multiple states, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Tennessee and Texas also have executions lined up for the remainder of this year. Ohio, however, has postponed its planned executions, shifting them to future dates.
In 2024, the total number of executions reached 25, equating to the 2018 numbers, marking the highest figures since 28 executions were recorded in 2015. Here’s an overview of recent and upcoming executions for the remainder of the year, sorted by state:
**Florida**
Thomas Lee Gudinas, aged 51, faces execution by lethal injection on Tuesday. He was found guilty in 1995 for the rape and murder of Michelle McGrath near a bar, making him the seventh person to be executed in Florida this year. Michael B. Bell, 54, awaits execution on July 15, charged with the fatal shooting of a man and woman outside a Jacksonville bar in a revenge attack. Convicted in 1995, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed Bell’s death warrant, marking this the eighth one this year.
**Mississippi**
The state’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, is set for execution on Wednesday. Jordan was sentenced back in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering a woman in a forest. Despite multiple appeals, his death sentence holds firm. Mississippi sanctions executions via lethal injection, nitrogen gas, electrocution, or firing squad.
**Tennessee**
Sixty-nine-year-old Byron Black is scheduled for execution by lethal injection on August 5. Convicted of three first-degree murders in 1989, he is responsible for the death of his girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters in Nashville. Harold Nichols, 64, will also face lethal injection on December 11, following his conviction for rape and first-degree felony murder concerning Karen Pulley’s 1988 death in Hamilton County.
**Texas**
Blaine Milam, 35, is slated for execution via lethal injection on September 25. He was convicted of the gruesome murder of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a purported exorcism in Rusk County in December 2008. His girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, also faced a capital murder conviction and is serving a life sentence without parole.
**Ohio**
Ohio originally had two executions prepared for later this year, with Timothy Coleman’s set for October 30 and Kareem Jackson’s for December 10. However, these have been deferred to 2028. Governor Mike DeWine has indicated an expectation of no further executions during his current term, which extends through 2026.