Pace of executions remains slow and not so steady six months after Baze

The Death Penalty Information Center has now posted here its latest accounting of all the executions in the United States since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Kentucky’s lethal injection protocol in Baze v. Rees.  As I have noted before, I find it remarkable not only that we have had roughly four executions per month (all in traditional death penalty states), but also that we have not seen any post-Baze increase in executions even though the Baze case led to a halt of all executions for over six months.

It is also interesting to see from this list of upcoming executions at DPIC that very few states other than Texas seem to be setting serious execution dates.  Also of note from this list is that Ohio is the only state other than Texas with more than one upcoming execution date, even though Ohio has not gone forward with an execution in almost 18 months. 

Some related recent posts:

• A month after Baze, has anything really changed?
• Three months after Baze, has anything really changed?
• Do special procedures help preserve the US death penalty?
• Three more uneventful(?) lethal injections, including one with a political spin
• Waiting and waiting and waiting on the row
• Did the Supreme Court’s work in Baze matter at all?