The last death penalty execution in the United States occurred very recently, in August 2025. For example, Florida executed Curtis Lee Windom by lethal injection on August 28, 2025, and Alabama executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia on June 10, 2025. Several states including Florida, Alabama, Texas, and others have carried out executions in 2025, making the death penalty an ongoing practice in some jurisdictions as of September 2025.
The most recent federal execution was earlier, on January 16, 2021, when Dustin John Higgs was executed by lethal injection.
Thus, death penalty executions continue at the state level as of mid-September 2025, with multiple executions carried out across various states within the past few months.
