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DeSantis accused of playing politics as Florida shatters executions record

The state has killed 15 people this year with two more scheduled this month as death penalty in decline across US

The Guardian - US

Five executions in eight days. Why the death penalty is being used more and more

Executions have been carried out this year in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas

The Independent UK

Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment.

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‘So much of this seems vengeful’: alarm as Trump recommits to death penalty

President says he’ll help states execute people but experts skeptical of bold pledge to expand capital punishment

The Guardian - US

Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.

The Texas Tribune

Indiana shrouds executions in secrecy, defying long tradition of public oversight

Executions have historically been carried out with at least some public scrutiny, from public hangings in the town square to lethal injections in prisons witnessed by journalists

The Independent UK

Missouri's death row had nearly 100 inmates in the 1990s. Now, it has eight

Missouri’s status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute

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Shaken baby syndrome: What to know as Texas man could be first in US executed over it

What is the debate over shaken baby syndrome?

The Independent UK

‘I’m terrified I’ll be executed’: Trump win could bring spree of death row killings

The ex-president has allegedly floated hangings and televised killings, and called for the deaths of drug dealers

The Guardian - US

US Set To Have Busiest Week On Death Row In 20 Years

One inmate in South Carolina has already been executed and four others in as many states are set to quickly follow.

International Business Times

There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week

The Independent UK

‘He deserves to live’: South Carolina to execute first man in 13 years despite doubts raised by evidence

Khalil Allah is set to be killed by lethal injection despite a key witness saying last month he made false remarks at trial

The Guardian - US

Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty

Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history

The Guardian - US

Florida’s revival of death penalty fuels rise in US executions in 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis scheduled six of the country’s 24 executions this year amid his presidential election bid

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