Robin Maher

“Last year was a very unusual year. It was the most executions we've seen in 15 years in the United States,”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

The prior year saw the most executions in the U.S. in 15 years.

“All of this is really due to Florida,”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Maher attributed the high volume of executions to Florida's accelerated execution schedule.

“Just earlier this year, in August, there were three executions on the same day,”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Three states carried out lethal injections on the same day in August 2026.

“It's not very common to have this many executions just across a couple of days,”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Multiple executions are scheduled across several U.S. states within a 24-hour window in the same week.

“This year, we do not expect to reach that number of executions again. There are a number of other warrants that are still open for this year, but I don't think we'll reach the high that we reached last year.”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Maher said she does not expect 2026 to reach the high number of executions seen the prior year.

“Gov. DeSantis has decided that he wants to set a record in the number of executions that are conducted during his term. He has scheduled an execution for roughly every two weeks in the state of Florida, both last year and this year.”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Maher said Gov. DeSantis has scheduled roughly one execution every two weeks in Florida over the past two years.

“This is an unusual year in that we're seeing occurrences like a number of executions scheduled on the same day or during the same month. But there's no evidence there's any coordination among the states to have all these executions occur simultaneously. This looks largely to be a coincidence.”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Maher said there is no evidence of coordination among states for simultaneous executions and described the clustering as a coincidence.

“This month, the month of September, we have seven executions scheduled. Last year in October, we had seven executions in a single month. But before then, we'd have to go back all the way to 2010 to see that number in a single month.”

Robin Maher · said 2026-09-16 · reported 2026-09-16

Seven executions are scheduled in September, a number last seen in a single month in October of the prior year and before that in 2010.