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Indiana puts man to death as three US executions to be carried out on same day

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On Thursday, three US executions are scheduled to take place within hours of each other: one in Indiana and one each in Florida and Alabama. In Indiana, Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was executed at Michigan City state prison for killing his girlfriend’s two children in a house fire in 2010. Florida plans to execute Jesse Guardado, who fatally stabbed an elderly woman during a robbery in 2004, while Alabama is set to execute Michael Taylor, convicted of beating two elderly people to death during a robbery in 1991. Death penalty opponents have urged governors in both states to commute the sentences but were unsuccessful.
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Jeffrey Weisheit, convicted of killing two children by setting fire to their home in Indiana in 2010, was executed early on Thursday, November 5, 2026. This execution came despite last-minute legal challenges raised over the lethal drug supplier Pharmaneek, which is facing a disciplinary hearing at the Indiana Pharmacy Board for unsanitary conditions that could lead to contaminated drugs. Pharmaneek's license was already on probation due to an FDA inspection report from March 2026.

The execution of Weisheit, who admitted his guilt and was sentenced to death by Republican Governor Mike Braun in defiance of a plea for a life sentence and brain scans to assess mental health issues, marked the first of three executions scheduled across Indiana, Florida, and Alabama on that day. This event mirrored a similar occurrence earlier in 2026 when lethal injections were carried out in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama on August 13.

Lawyers for Weisheit cited concerns over drug quality after the failed lethal injection execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, which left her in a coma. Despite these concerns, Governor Braun declined to halt the execution or consider Weisheit's request for brain scans. Florida was also preparing to execute its 19th prisoner under Republican governor Ron DeSantis that day, tying the state’s record set in 2025.

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Indiana GPE · 5× Alabama GPE · 4× Florida GPE · 3× Taylor PERSON · 3× Republican NORP · 2× Weisheit PERSON · 2× Christa Pike PERSON · 1× Jeffrey Weisheit PERSON · 1× Ron DeSantis PERSON · 1× Tennessee GPE · 1×

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The death penalty in the US has faced renewed scrutiny since the September failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, although courts have rejected efforts to halt other executions after she survived two massive doses of pentobarbital.
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🔮 It would be Florida’s 19th execution this year under Republican governor Ron DeSantis, matching a record set by the state in 2025, and the second time this year that three people would be put to death on the same day.
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Indiana puts man to death as three US executions to be carried out on same day · assertive framing

Claims (23 extracted, 0 hedged)

Florida and Alabama plan to execute one man each on Thursday just hours after Indiana put a prisoner to death – in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the US. asserted
Indiana → plan → US
It would be Florida’s 19th execution this year under Republican governor Ron DeSantis, matching a record set by the state in 2025, and the second time this year that three people would be put to death on the same day. asserted
people → match → day
The death penalty in the US has faced renewed scrutiny since the September failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, although courts have rejected efforts to halt other executions after she survived two massive doses of pentobarbital. asserted
she → face → pentobarbital
In Indiana on Thursday, Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was pronounced dead at 12.45am at the state prison in Michigan City, said Noelle Russell, spokesperson at the state’s department of correction. asserted
Russell → pronounce → correction
She said he had no final words. asserted
he → say → words
He had acknowledged killing his girlfriend’s two children in a house fire in the Evansville area in 2010 but had hoped that governor Mike Braun would grant clemency and change his sentence to life in prison. asserted
Braun → acknowledge → prison
Braun declined. asserted
Braun → decline → ?
Florida has carried out more than half the 32 executions in the US so far this year. asserted
Florida → carry → US
Jesse Guardado is set for execution later on Thursday after being convicted of fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton county home in 2004 before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to buy drugs. asserted
Guardado → set → drugs
She had helped him get a job and housing. asserted
him → help → job
Guardado, now 64, had a court appeal turned down. asserted
appeal → have → ?
In Alabama, Michael Taylor is set to die by lethal injection on Thursday. asserted
Taylor → set → Thursday
In 1991, when he was 19, he beat two people, aged 83 and 79, to death with a metal bar during a robbery in their home in Gadsden. asserted
he → beat → Gadsden
Death penalty opponents had urged Alabama’s Republican governor Kay Ivey to reduce Taylor’s sentence to life in prison, but she declined. asserted
she → urge → prison
Esther Brown of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty said: “If the state kills Michael, it is not the 19-year-old who made the worst mistake of his life whom it kills. asserted
it → abolish → whom
The state plans to execute Taylor, 54, by lethal injection after a judge declared a nitrogen gas method unconstitutional. asserted
method → plan → injection
His attorneys objected to the last-minute switch to lethal injection since he selected nitrogen gas as his method several years ago, but a judge ruled against Taylor. asserted
judge → object → Taylor
Alabama executed murderer Kenneth Smith in 2024 by nitrogen asphyxiation, in an episode that witnesses found excruciating, after previously failing to succeed in its attempt to kill him using lethal injection. asserted
witnesses → execute → injection
Meanwhile, in Indiana earlier on Thursday, lawyers failed to persuade the state governor to allow Weisheit to undergo brain scans to assess a history of head injuries and mental health problems. asserted
Weisheit → fail → injuries
They had asked for a life sentence. asserted
They → ask → sentence
Weisheit’s last objection centered on the state’s planned use of lethal drugs purchased from a pharmacy that is facing a disciplinary hearing next week in front of the Indiana pharmacy board, the state regulatory agency. asserted
that → center → board
The execution provided “long-awaited justice for Alyssa Lynch and her brother Caleb, two innocent children whose lives were stolen in an act of unspeakable cruelty”, Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita said. asserted
Rokita → provide → cruelty
The Associated Press contributed reporting asserted
Press → contribute → reporting
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