Executions were scheduled Thursday in Indiana, Florida and Alabama, potentially making the date the second this year with three executions on one day. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said his goal is to bring justice to families who have waited decades. The cases involve rejected requests to reduce sentences and court rulings about execution methods. Indiana’s planned execution drew objections because its drugs came from a pharmacy facing a disciplinary hearing next week. In Alabama, a judge ruled nitrogen gas unconstitutional, so the state plans to use lethal injection instead; the report does not give final outcomes or execution times, fees or paperwork requirements.
TLDR: Three states scheduled executions for Thursday, with legal objections and procedural disputes remaining part of the account. Indiana’s pharmacy supplier faces a board hearing next week, and Alabama’s planned method changed after a judge’s ruling.
Executions were scheduled Thursday in Indiana, Florida and Alabama, with an Indiana case set to be first. If all three proceed, it would be the second time this year that three people are executed on the same day. The schedules come as courts have rejected efforts to halt other executions following a failed execution in Tennessee last month.
The clearest stated rationale in the account comes from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. He has said his goal is to bring justice to families who have waited decades for death sentences to be carried out. The article does not provide a shared explanation from all three states for scheduling executions on the same day.
In Indiana, Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was set to receive a lethal injection. He was convicted of setting a fire in 2010 that killed his girlfriend’s children, ages eight and five, in a home in the Evansville area. The account says the killings apparently arose from the couple’s deteriorating relationship. Weisheit admitted killing the children, according to the report.
Weisheit’s lawyers asked Republican Gov. Mike Braun to allow brain scans. They said the scans could support their argument that Weisheit had a history of head injuries and mental health problems. Braun declined that request and also rejected a request to reduce the sentence to life in prison.
A separate objection concerned the drugs Indiana planned to use. The drugs were purchased from a pharmacy facing a disciplinary hearing the following week at the Indiana Pharmacy Board. The account does not give details about the hearing or identify its outcome. The Indiana Department of Correction said it was confident in its ability to carry out the execution humanely. Courts have rejected efforts to stop other executions after Christa Pike survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital in Tennessee last month, but the account does not specify the status of every possible legal filing in Weisheit’s case.
Florida’s scheduled execution was for Jesse Guardado, 64. He confessed and pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman in her Walton County home in 2004. He stole her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to support his drug habit. The woman had helped him find work and housing.
A federal appeals court ruled in 2024 that Guardado had received a “full and fair” hearing during the death-penalty phase of his case. Florida’s scheduled execution would be its 19th this year, matching a record the state set in 2025. Florida had carried out more than half of the 32 executions in the United States so far this year, according to the account. DeSantis is due to leave office in January.
Alabama’s scheduled execution was for Michael Taylor, 54, in a case dating back 35 years. Taylor was convicted of fatally beating an older couple with a metal bar during a robbery at their Gadsden home. Police arrested him, then 19, in Birmingham with the victims’ Cadillac. The execution would be Alabama’s third this year.
Gov. Kay Ivey declined opponents’ requests to reduce Taylor’s sentence to life in prison. They cited his age and immaturity at the time of the killings. Esther Brown of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty argued that the person facing execution now is not the same as the 19-year-old who committed the crime. That position remains part of the public dispute surrounding the case; the account reports no change to the scheduled execution.
The practical details differ by state. Indiana planned a lethal injection using drugs from a pharmacy facing a board disciplinary hearing next week. Alabama also planned lethal injection after a judge declared the nitrogen gas method unconstitutional. Taylor had selected nitrogen gas several years earlier, and his attorneys objected to the last-minute change; a judge ruled against him. Florida’s scheduled method is not specified in the account. It gives no execution times, fees, forms or further deadlines for the three cases.
The schedules remain subject to the legal status described in the report, including the rejected objections and court rulings. The three states’ next steps are to carry out the scheduled procedures, while the Indiana Pharmacy Board hearing is due next week. Those are the documented timelines and oversight points; the account does not report whether the executions ultimately took place.
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