Indiana Executes Jeffrey Weisheit, First of Three US Executions Set for Same Day
Photo: TMZIndiana executed Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, by lethal injection early Thursday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, the first of three executions scheduled in the US that day. Noelle Russell of the state Department of Correction said he was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. and made no final words. Weisheit admitted killing his girlfriend's two children, ages 8 and 5, in a 2010 house fire in the Evansville area. Governor Mike Braun declined his clemency request. Lawyers had asked Braun to allow brain scans to support claims of head injuries and mental health problems. Florida and Alabama each planned one execution later Thursday. Florida's would be its 19th this year under Governor Ron DeSantis, matching its 2025 record, and Florida has carried out more than half of the 32 US executions so far in 2025. Jesse Guardado is due to be executed for fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman in her Walton County home in 2004. It is the second time this year three people are to be put to death on one day.
The right-leaning New York Post leads with the Indiana case itself, adding the children's ages, the couple's deteriorating relationship, Weisheit's final meal of barbecue ribs, Indiana's ban on media witnesses and his lawyers' brain-scan request. It mentions Florida's record and the Christa Pike scrutiny only briefly. The left-leaning Guardian opens with the national picture: Florida's pace under DeSantis, its share of this year's executions, and Guardado's crime. It uses the phrase "state killing" and gives Pike's failed Tennessee execution more prominence. CNN's headline and excerpt match the New York Post's basic framing. Both sides agree on the core facts: the time of death, the three-execution day and the Pike-related scrutiny. TMZ's brief report largely matches the basic facts.
How the sides differ Right sources add case details like the victims' ages, final meal and clemency-related brain-scan request; left sources widen to Florida's record execution pace and the Pike scrutiny.
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The Guardian opens with Indiana's execution but widens to Florida's record 19th execution, its share of this year's total, Guardado's crime and the Pike scrutiny; CNN keeps to the core facts.
TMZ gives a brief report that Weisheit, who admitted killing his girlfriend's two children in a 2010 fire, was executed first of three that day.
The New York Post centers on Weisheit, with the victims' ages, Department of Correction spokesperson Noelle Russell, his final meal, the media-witness ban and his lawyers' brain-scan request, plus the Florida and Pike context.