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On Thursday, the United States carried out three executions in a single day, using lethal injection in Indiana, Florida and Alabama. The day also saw Florida reach its annual record of executions, a figure set in 2025 under Governor Ron DeSantis. Indiana – Jeffrey Weisheit was executed at 00:45 local time (05:45 GMT) at the Indiana State Prison. Weisheit had been sentenced to death in 2010 for setting a fire that killed his girlfriend’s two children, aged eight and five. The lethal injection began shortly after midnight. Florida – At 18:13 local time (23:13 GMT), 64‑year‑old Jesse Guardado was executed at the Starke State Prison. Guardado had been convicted of fatally stabbing 75‑year‑old Jackie Malone in 2004; Malone had helped him find work and housing after his release from prison. Prior to the injection, Guardado apologized to Malone’s family and to his own relatives. The execution was the nineteenth in Florida this year, matching the state’s record for the year. Alabama – Michael Taylor, 54, was executed at 18:10 local time (00:10 GMT on Friday) at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Taylor had been convicted of murdering 83‑year‑old Ivan Moore and 79‑year‑old Lucille Moore with a metal bar during a 1991 home‑robbery when he was 19. His attorneys had sought a commutation to life imprisonment and had challenged the switch from his preferred nitrogen‑gas method to lethal injection, but a judge ruled the former unconstitutional. The three executions bring the total number of death sentences carried out in the United States this year to 35, with 19 of those in Florida, which accounts for more than half of the national total. This is the second time in 2026 that three inmates were executed on the same day; the last occurrence was in January 2010. The executions come amid a national debate over the conditions under which the death penalty is applied. The debate was intensified by the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, who survived two doses of pentobarbital, and by the aborted live‑stream of the execution of former U.S. Army officer Nidal Malik Hasan. In a separate development, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would commute the death sentences of 548 inmates on the state’s death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, marking one of the largest mass commutations in U.S. history. Article source: De Ultimo Minuto | Image credit: De Ultimo Minuto
On Thursday, the United States carried out three executions in a single day, using lethal injection in Indiana, Florida and Alabama. The day also saw Florida reach its annual record of executions, a figure set in 2025 under Governor Ron DeSantis. Indiana – Jeffrey Weisheit was executed at 00:45 local time (05:45 GMT) at the Indiana State Prison. Weisheit had been sentenced to death in 2010 for setting a fire that killed his girlfriend’s two children, aged eight and five. The lethal injection began shortly after midnight. Florida – At 18:13 local time (23:13 GMT), 64‑year‑old Jesse Guardado was executed at the Starke State Prison. Guardado had been convicted of fatally stabbing 75‑year‑old Jackie Malone in 2004; Malone had helped him find work and housing after his release from prison. Prior to the injection, Guardado apologized to Malone’s family and to his own relatives. The execution was the nineteenth in Florida this year, matching the state’s record for the year. Alabama – Michael Taylor, 54, was executed at 18:10 local time (00:10 GMT on Friday) at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Taylor had been convicted of murdering 83‑year‑old Ivan Moore and 79‑year‑old Lucille Moore with a metal bar during a 1991 home‑robbery when he was 19. His attorneys had sought a commutation to life imprisonment and had challenged the switch from his preferred nitrogen‑gas method to lethal injection, but a judge ruled the former unconstitutional. The three executions bring the total number of death sentences carried out in the United States this year to 35, with 19 of those in Florida, which accounts for more than half of the national total. This is the second time in 2026 that three inmates were executed on the same day; the last occurrence was in January 2010. The executions come amid a national debate over the conditions under which the death penalty is applied. The debate was intensified by the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, who survived two doses of pentobarbital, and by the aborted live‑stream of the execution of former U.S. Army officer Nidal Malik Hasan. In a separate development, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would commute the death sentences of 548 inmates on the state’s death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, marking one of the largest mass commutations in U.S. history.
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