2 more executions set in Florida and Alabama, hours after lethal injection in Indiana

Florida and Alabama have scheduled two more executions for Thursday, just hours after Indiana carried out its first lethal injection of the day as part of three scheduled for the same date across the U.S.

In Florida, the state plans its 19th execution this year under Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, meeting a record set in 2025. It will be the second time this year that three individuals are put to death on the same day.

In Indiana, 50-year-old Jeffrey Weisheit was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. at the state prison in Michigan City. He had pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend's two children in a house fire in 2010 but hoped for clemency from Governor Mike Braun, which was declined. Weisheit's final meal consisted of barbecue ribs.

Alabama's execution involves 54-year-old Michael Taylor, who fatally beat two people, aged 83 and 79, with a metal bar during a robbery in their home in 1991. Death penalty opponents had urged Governor Kay Ivey to reduce his sentence to life in prison, highlighting his age and immaturity at the time. The state plans to execute Taylor by lethal injection after a judge ruled against his preference for a nitrogen gas method as unconstitutional.