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Indiana, Florida and Alabama Carry Out Three US Executions on the Same Day
Indiana, Florida and Alabama carried out three lethal injection executions on the same day, Thursday.
Key points
- Jeffrey Weisheit was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. local time after a lethal injection at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
- Jesse Guardado, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. local time in Florida after a three-drug injection at a state prison in Starke.
- Michael Taylor, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. local time in Alabama, the last lethal injection of the day.
Why it matters. Florida has carried out more than half of the 34 U.S. executions so far this year, and the day's three executions follow a failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee in September.
Indiana executed Jeffrey Weisheit early Thursday over a 2010 house fire near Evansville that killed his girlfriend's two children. Noelle Russell, the Indiana Department of Correction's chief communications officer, said he was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. local time. Florida executed Jesse Guardado, 64, at 6:13 p.m., and Alabama executed Michael Taylor, 54, at 6:10 p.m. It was the second time this year three people in the U.S. were executed on the same day.
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Indiana, Florida and Alabama Carry Out Three US Executions on the Same Day
Indiana, Florida and Alabama carried out three executions by lethal injection on the same day, Thursday. It is the second time this year that three people in the United States have been put to death on a single day. In Indiana, Jeffrey Weisheit was executed in the early morning hours. He had admitted to killing his girlfriend's two children, aged 8 and 5, by setting fire to the house in the Evansville area in 2010. The Florida and Alabama executions were carried out the same day. The cases add to national debate over capital punishment and its use across states.