Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in US

Trump's executive order also encouraged states to seek the death penalty for every federal crime when a law enforcement officer is killed, and instructed the attorney general to ensure that states have an ample supply of drugs for lethal injections, facilitating the states' ability to carry out capital punishment.

In 2023, Florida lowered the legal threshold for capital punishment by reducing the number of jurors required to recommend the death penalty in the trial phase of court cases, from a unanimous 12 to eight jurors.'Their punishment is, frankly, earned' The US is one of the few western countries that still has the death penalty, which has been largely phased out in Europe and is beginning to wane in Africa.