Indiana, Florida and Alabama Carry Out Rare US Triple Execution Day
Three inmates were executed by lethal injection in Indiana, Florida and Alabama on the same day, the second time that has happened this year.
TL;DR
- Indiana, Florida, and Alabama executed three inmates on the same day, the second instance in 2026.
- Jeffrey Weisheit was executed in Indiana for setting a house fire that killed two children.
- Jesse Guardado was executed in Florida for fatally stabbing a woman in 2004.
- Michael Taylor was executed in Alabama for the 1991 murders of an elderly couple.
- Florida has ramped up executions, reaching a state record of 19 in the previous year.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he is seeking to commute all death sentences to life without parole.