Notable review of death penalty legislative developments so far in 2025

The Death Penalty Information Center has this new thorough report of recent capital legislation under the heading “2025 Roundup of Death Penalty Related Legislation.”  Here is how the review gets started:

More than one hun­dred bills have been intro­duced this year in 34 states and in Congress to expand and lim­it use of the death penal­ty, abol­ish and rein­state the death penal­ty, mod­i­fy exe­cu­tion pro­to­cols and secret the infor­ma­tion about them, and alter aspects of cap­i­tal tri­als.  Thus far, nine bills in five states have been enact­ed, with Florida enact­ing the most leg­is­la­tion thus far.  Of the bills that have been signed into law, three mod­i­fy exe­cu­tion pro­to­cols; two expand the cir­cum­stances for death eli­gi­bil­i­ty; one expands aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stances; one law makes a death sen­tence manda­to­ry; one mod­i­fies the process and low­ers the legal stan­dard for intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty claims; and one mod­i­fies the process to deter­mine men­tal com­pe­ten­cy for exe­cu­tion.  The major­i­ty of enact­ed bills have been spon­sored by Republican legislators.