The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.

Death row inmates in five states, not including Florida, are scheduled to be put to death in the coming week defying a decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. Executions are planned in Alabama,