United States: Indiana executes Jeffrey Weisheit, first of three death-row inmates scheduled for the same day

Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was executed by lethal injection on November 5, 2026, at the prison in Michigan City, Indiana. He had admitted killing Alyssa, 8, and Caleb, 5, his partner’s children, by setting fire to their home near Evansville in 2010. Governor Mike Braun denied his request for clemency, and the state Supreme Court refused to halt the execution, despite his lawyers’ objections to the pentobarbital used. The first of three executions scheduled in the United States that day, it brought Indiana’s total to four since executions resumed in December 2024 and the national total to 32 since January.