DeSantis Takes The Lead As Red States Ramp Up Death Warrants In 2025

The only other G-7 country which carries out executions is the United States. As of late June 2025, twenty-five executions have taken place across the country. Governor Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants as of July 2nd, marking the most of any governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. With presidential aspirations DeSantis is hoping to build upon his notoriety by sentencing the most people to death in a year.

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In late June, 2025, the government of Japan executed the Twitter Killer by hanging him. The 34-year-old was dubbed the Twitter Killer after killing nine people he met online through the social media platform now called X. He targeted users who had posted about taking their own life, telling them he could help them in their plans or even die alongside them. His Twitter profile stated, I want to help people who are really in pain, please DM me anytime. He killed three teenage girls and five women after raping them. He also killed the boyfriend of one of the women to silence him. All of his crimes had occurred in 2017. All of Japan's executions are carried out by hanging and in secrecy. Prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging. The only other G-7 country which carries out executions is the United States. As of late June 2025, twenty-five executions have taken place across the country. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has signed nine death warrants as of July 2nd, marking the most of any governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. It is widely considered that DeSantis continues to have presidential aspirations and is hoping to build upon his notoriety by sentencing the most people to death in a year.

The problem is last year we didn't want to do it thinking like, oh, it's an election year, and like we're trying to do that. So we said, let's just get through the election and then it. So we're trying to get on a more normal pace with some of this.

Along a lightning rod of political controversy, the death penalty continues to only be enforced in Republican states. This year marks an increase in death penalty cases in those states while the overall numbers are down. Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General of Florida, now AG of the United States, is a staunch supporter of the federal death penalty. Interestingly, Bondi came under fire in 2013 after she delayed a long planned execution so she could attend a fundraiser for herself.

We have to seek justice, and so every appellate avenue should be open to defendants who are on death row. But yes, I believe there could be some expediting of that process and the signing of death warrants as well.

Despite Republican politicians betting heavily on the death penalty, public support with Americans is at a five decade low at 53%. More than half of adults aged 18 to 43 oppose the death penalty. No matter where you stand on the death penalty, blatantly using it to further your political career, moving it to fit your political fundraising schedule, is reprehensible and disqualifying.