A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Twenty-three men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the US, and six other people are scheduled to be put to death in four states during the remainder of 2025.
Two men in Florida and Mississippi are scheduled to be executed on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. The last person to be put to death in the US was a South Carolina man on June 13. So far this year, executions have been carried out in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Other states with scheduled executions this year are Tennessee and Texas. Ohio has postponed two executions that had been planned for later this year.
All of 2024 saw twenty-five executions, matching the number for 2018. Those were the highest totals since twenty-eight executions in 2015. Here’s a look at recent executions and those scheduled for the rest of the year, by state:
Florida: Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, is set to die by lethal injection on Tuesday. Gudinas was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death for raping and killing Michelle McGrath near a bar. He would be the seventh person to be executed in Florida this year. Michael B. Bell, 54, is scheduled to be executed on July 15 for fatally shooting a man and woman outside a Jacksonville bar as part of an attempted revenge killing. Bell was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death for the murders of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith. Bell’s death warrant was the eighth signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.
Mississippi: Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman in a forest. Jordan has filed multiple death sentence appeals, which have been denied. Mississippi allows death sentences to be carried out using lethal injection, nitrogen gas, electrocution, or firing squad.
Tennessee: Byron Black, 69, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on August 5. Black was convicted in 1989 of three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her two daughters in Nashville. Harold Nichols, 64, is also scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 11. Nichols was convicted of rape and first-degree felony murder in the 1988 death of Karen Pulley in Hamilton County.
Texas: Blaine Milam, 35, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 25. Milam was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s thirteen-month-old daughter during what the couple had said was part of an exorcism in Rusk County in East Texas in December 2008. Milam’s girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, was also convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Ohio: Ohio had two executions set for later this year, with Timothy Coleman scheduled to die on October 30 and Kareem Jackson scheduled to be executed on December 10. Those have been postponed into 2028. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has said that he does not anticipate any further executions will happen during his term, which runs through 2026.
