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First of 3 U.S. executions set for Thursday carried out in Indiana
CBS News • • nation
Key Points:
- Jeffrey Weisheit was executed by lethal injection at Indiana State Prison for killing his girlfriend's two children by arson in 2010, marking Indiana's first execution this year.
- Weisheit's requests for brain scans and a sentence reduction were denied by Governor Mike Braun, who stated the case had been thoroughly reviewed by courts with no overturned sentence.
- On the same day, executions were also scheduled in Florida and Alabama, continuing a rare occurrence of three U.S. executions in one day for the second time this year.
- Florida's execution involved Jesse Guardado for a 2004 murder, part of the state's record-tying 19 executions in 2023 under Governor Ron DeSantis.
- Alabama planned to execute Michael Taylor for a 1988 double homicide, despite appeals citing his youth and maturity at the time, with Governor Kay Ivey declining to commute his sentence.
