Three States Carry Out Executions on the Same Day in Rare Occurrence
Executions were carried out in Florida, Indiana, and Alabama Thursday, marking the second time this year that three people were put to death by lethal injection on the same day.
Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was executed in Indiana after admitting that he set fire to his girlfriend’s house in 2010, killing her two children, ages eight and five, CBS News reported.
This marked the first execution that the state has carried out this year.
Weisheit’s attorneys cited concerns about the state’s plan to use execution drugs from a pharmacy that’s slated to face a disciplinary hearing before Indiana’s pharmacy board, according to Fox News.
The Indiana Department of Correction, however, said the execution would be carried out “humanely” and that Weisheit had been given a fair appeals process.
🚨 THREE MEN EXECUTED IN ONE DAY — NOVEMBER 5, 2026
⚖️ ALABAMA — Michael Shannon Taylor, 54
Convicted of murdering Ivan and Lucille Moore, ages 83 and 79, during a 1991 robbery. Taylor beat the elderly couple to death with a metal bar inside their home.
💉 Execution: Lethal injection. Pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.
Final words: “No, sir.”
He appeared to mouth “thank you” toward his attorneys before his spiritual adviser prayed with him.
⚖️ FLORIDA — Jesse Guardado, 64
Convicted of the 2004 murder of 75-year-old Jackie Malone, who had helped him find housing and employment. Guardado stabbed her to death and stole valuables to purchase drugs.
💉 Execution: Lethal injection. Pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m.
Final words: “I would like to once again apologize for the pain and suffering I’ve caused to the victim’s family and my own family as well.”
Florida’s 19th execution of 2026 tied the state’s annual record.
⚖️ INDIANA — Jeffrey Weisheit, 50
Convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s two children, 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch, by deliberately setting their home on fire in 2010.
💉 Execution: Lethal injection. Pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m.
Final words: None.
This marked the second time in 2026 that three states carried out executions on the same day.
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“These reviews have never resulted in an overturned sentence,” Republican Gov. Mike Braun said in a statement. “Today, Weisheit’s sentence has been carried out as ordered by the court.”
On Thursday evening, Florida executed Jesse Guardado, 64, after he pleaded guilty to stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her home in 2004.
He also stole $80 and various items to purchase drugs. The victim had previously helped Guardado find employment and housing.
Finally, in Alabama, Michael Taylor, 54, was executed for murdering an elderly couple during a 1991 home-invasion robbery.
The only other time this year that three states performed executions was on Aug. 13 in Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
This news comes a little over one month after Tennessee botched the execution of Christa Pike, who was on death row for the brutal 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.
Despite receiving two injections of pentobarbital, she did not die. After spending several days in a hospital, she was returned to prison.
The state’s GOP Gov. Bill Lee halted all executions for the remainder of 2026 after the mishap.
Additionally, California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he would use his executive authority to commute death sentences for 548 prisoners who will now serve life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole.
“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” he wrote in an open letter to Californians.
Newsom is term-limited and will be leaving office in January. He’d previously imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019.
The state has not carried out an execution since 2006.
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