Forty-fifth execution carried out in the United States

Mark Allen Geralds, a 58-year-old American inmate in the state of Florida, was executed by lethal injection. This marked the eighteenth execution conducted in the state so far this year.

According to USA Today, the execution, which took place on Tuesday local time, made Florida the state with the highest number of executions in the United States in 2025.

Geralds’ attorneys had previously argued that his trial was unfair and that the jury acted with bias against him.

Geralds was the eighteenth inmate executed in Florida this year. The number of executions in the state has now surpassed Florida’s previous record of eight executions in a single year, set in 1984 and matched again in 2014.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed more death warrants than any other governor in the history of the state.

Florida is scheduled to carry out another execution next week for Frank Aten Walls, another American inmate.

Meanwhile, Geralds became the forty-fifth person executed in the United States this year — a figure the country has not reached since 2010.

At the same time, the state of Tennessee is also set to carry out an execution in the coming week. Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, December 11.

Two more executions are also planned for 2025 in the United States, one in the state of Georgia and the other in Florida. If carried out, these will bring the total number of executions in the U.S. in 2025 to 48.