Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant this week for Frank Athen Walls, whose execution is now scheduled for Dec. 18.

No other state has increased its use of the death penalty as quickly as Florida has. The issues plaguing our death penalty system remain unaddressed.

This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it suggests we are seeing a revival of the death penalty after a long period of decline in its use.

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on the increase.

Capital punishment has been rarer in recent years, but 2025 has brought a complete reversal. This year has seen the most death row inmates put to death in a decade, a trend that will likely only continue under President Donald Trump, who is a proponent of the death penalty.

Harold Wayne Nichols is to be executed Dec. 11. He's asked Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

The death penalty doesn’t make us safer, is prone to error and is expensive, writes death penalty opponent. Yet South Carolina isn’t slowing down.