Indiana puts man to death as three US executions to be carried out on same day
Summary
Indiana executed Jeffrey Weisheit by lethal injection early Thursday, while Florida and Alabama planned executions later the same day. The three executions would mark the second day this year on which three people were put to death in the United States.Key Facts
- Indiana pronounced Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, dead at 12:45 a.m. at the state prison in Michigan City.
- Weisheit was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s two children in a house fire near Evansville in 2010; Governor Mike Braun declined to grant clemency.
- Florida planned to execute Jesse Guardado, 64, who was convicted of fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman during a 2004 robbery.
- If carried out, Guardado’s execution would be Florida’s 19th this year, matching the state record set in 2025.
- Alabama planned to execute Michael Taylor, 54, by lethal injection for the 1991 killings of two people during a home robbery.
- Taylor’s lawyers objected to the switch from nitrogen gas, his selected method, to lethal injection; a judge rejected his challenge.
- The article says the scheduled executions followed renewed scrutiny of the death penalty after a failed execution attempt in Tennessee in September.
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