The number of executions around the globe in 2025 surged to the highest recorded figure in 44 years, a new Amnesty International report said.
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Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and waning public support for the practice during comments at a Dec. 3 press event announcing a new coalition called the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty.