List of people executed in the United States in 2025

Forty-seven people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2025, thirty-nine by lethal injection, five by nitrogen hypoxia, and three by firing squad.^[1][2] The number of executions in 2025 became the highest number to be carried out in the United States in 16 years.^[3]

The state of South Carolina carried out the executions of three inmates by firing squad, marking the first three executions by firing squad since 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Utah by firing squad (all three inmates chose the method).^[4][5][6]

The state of Louisiana conducted its first execution in 15 years since 2010; the person executed, Jessie Hoffman Jr., was additionally the first to be executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana, which became the second state after Alabama to conduct nitrogen gas executions.^[7] Arizona carried out the first executions in a state with a Democratic governor in office since 2017.^[8] The state of Mississippi carried out the execution of the state's longest-serving death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan after he spent 49 years on death row.^[9] Edward Zakrzewski II was the ninth person put to death in Florida, marking a post-Furman record year of executions for the state since 2014;^[10] while the execution of serial killer Frank A. Walls (the 19th in Florida in 2025) marked the state's overall record for the number of executions in a single year.^[11] Furthermore, Walls was also the nation's final execution in 2025.

Christopher Sepulvado and Ralph Menzies, who received March and September execution dates, respectively, died of natural causes at ages 81 and 67 before their executions could be carried out. Sepulvado was scheduled to be executed in Louisiana, and Menzies in Utah.^[12][13] Menzies, as well as David Lee Roberts in Alabama, received stays of execution to allow for competency evaluations. Robin Dion Myers and Tremane Wood received commutations of their death sentences to life without parole from Alabama governor Kay Ivey and Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt respectively in 2025.^[14][15][16]