Indiana executed Jeffrey Weisheit at 12:45 a.m. for the 2010 arson killings of two children.

12:45 a.m. is the time of death the Department of Correction gave. The Indiana Capital Chronicle's witnesses could see him for three minutes, and the blinds closed at 12:37 a.m. Barbecue ribs, and barbecue ribs from Texas Corral and Mountain Dew, are not the same last meal. The 2013 conviction was already the judgment. Thursday is the day the state carried it out.

The Associated Press reported that Jeffrey Weisheit was executed early Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, in the first of three lethal injections scheduled that day in the United States. It reported the lethal injection started just after midnight and that he was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m., according to Noelle Russell, Indiana Department of Correction chief communications officer. It reported she said his final meal was barbecue ribs and that he had no final words. The Daily Mail reported the same title for Russell, the same meal, and no final words, and it printed the time as 12:45 a.m. local time. Local time, on that page, and 12:45 a.m. with no zone, on the Associated Press account, are not the same clock line. The Indianapolis Star reported he died by a lethal injection of pentobarbital, that a Department of Correction news release listed the official time of death as 12:45 a.m., and that he had no last words. No last words, and no final words, are not the same phrase. UPI quoted Russell, and it called her a spokesperson rather than a chief communications officer: "I can confirm that early today Jeffrey Weisheit was executed by lethal injection. His time of death was 12:45 [a.m. CST]. He had no final words." The zone on that page sits in brackets. UPI reported a Department of Correction statement that the final meal was "barbecue ribs from Texas Corral and Mountain Dew." The Indiana Capital Chronicle reported the department said he had no final words and that the final meal was barbecue ribs from Texas Corral and Mountain Dew. Barbecue ribs, and barbecue ribs from Texas Corral and Mountain Dew, are not the same meal. UPI's headline spells him Jeffery. The body of that story, the Associated Press, the Star, the Daily Mail, and the Capital Chronicle spell him Jeffrey.

The killing those pages describe is a 2010 fire, and they do not put it on one place line. The Associated Press reported he admitted killing his girlfriend's two children, ages 8 and 5, by setting fire to his girlfriend's house in the Evansville area in 2010. The children are not named here. The Indianapolis Star reported he was convicted of intentionally setting a Vanderburgh County house on fire in 2010 and leaving his then-girlfriend's two young children inside. Vanderburgh County, and the Evansville area, are not the same place line. The Capital Chronicle reported the fire was near Evansville, that their mother was working an overnight shift, and that she had left the children in his care. Their mother is not named here. Their father is not named here. Gov. Mike Braun's statement, as the Star and the Capital Chronicle printed it, refers to the conviction in 2013. The Associated Press reported this was Indiana's first execution this year. It reported Florida and Alabama were also set to carry out executions Thursday. The Capital Chronicle reported Weisheit's was the first of three scheduled nationwide Thursday, with Alabama set to execute Michael Taylor and Florida scheduled to execute Jesse Guardado later in the day. Scheduled later in the day is not a report that those two executions had been carried out.

What ended the appeals is not one order. The Capital Chronicle reported his death followed Braun's denial of clemency on Monday and a divided Indiana Supreme Court decision on Wednesday rejecting a final request for a stay. It reported the Indiana Parole Board unanimously recommended against clemency, and that Braun rejected a request to commute the sentence to life without parole. The Associated Press and the Daily Mail reported that lawyers wanted Braun to allow brain scans to support an argument about head injuries and mental health problems, that he declined, and that he turned down a request to reduce the sentence to life in prison. The Capital Chronicle reported the parents took different positions in the clemency proceedings. It reported the mother urged officials to uphold the death sentence. It reported the father asked Braun to spare Weisheit. The Indiana Supreme Court voted 3-2 on Wednesday to deny an emergency stay while he challenged the drugs and the execution procedures in Marion Superior Court, the Capital Chronicle reported. It reported Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justice Christopher Goff dissented and would have granted a 10-day stay. UPI reported the lawyers petitioned for a 10-day pause over the drugs and the staff assigned to the execution, and that the court denied the request 3-2. The Associated Press reported the latest objection centered on lethal drugs purchased from a pharmacy facing a disciplinary hearing next week before the Indiana Pharmacy Board, and that the Department of Correction said it is confident "in our ability to humanely carry out" the execution. The Capital Chronicle reported that hearing had been set for Nov. 9, and that the lawyers said after the execution it had been postponed to Dec. 14, while the board's Nov. 9 agenda still listed the case Thursday morning. Next week, Nov. 9, and Dec. 14 are not the same date. The Capital Chronicle reported the department confirmed Monday that it paid $275,000 for the drugs, and that an inventory log recorded six 50-milliliter vials of pentobarbital received on Oct. 29. The Star reported the injection was pentobarbital. The Associated Press account of the execution does not name the drug.

The governor's statement is not one length. The Associated Press and the Daily Mail reported that he said, "These reviews have never resulted in an overturned sentence," and, "Today, Weisheit's sentence has been carried out as ordered by the court." The Star reported the statement went out at 1 a.m. CST and printed a longer text: "Jeffrey Weisheit's case has been heard and reviewed numerous times by both state and federal courts, including the Indiana Supreme Court, since his conviction in 2013. These reviews have never resulted in an overturned sentence," and then, "The State Parole Board issued a unanimous recommendation to deny Weisheit's final appeal for clemency and that his execution proceed as scheduled. Today, Weisheit's sentence has been carried out as ordered by the court." The Capital Chronicle printed the sentences about the reviews since the 2013 conviction and printed, "These reviews have never resulted in an overturned sentence." It reported the parole board's unanimous recommendation in its own sentence, not inside that quotation, and the quotation it printed does not include the line that the sentence had been carried out. State Parole Board, inside the Star's quotation, and Indiana Parole Board, in the Capital Chronicle's narrative, are not the same name. The Capital Chronicle, which reported it was the only news organization to witness the execution, reported he did not visibly move or open his eyes during the three minutes witnesses could see him. It reported the process began shortly after midnight, the blinds opened at 12:34 a.m. Central Standard Time, and Deputy Warden Dawn Buss closed them at 12:37 a.m. It reported the department's time of death was 12:45 a.m., eight minutes after the blinds closed, and that witnesses could not see when the lethal injection began. Just after midnight, on the Associated Press, and a viewing window that opens at 12:34 a.m., are not the same account of the injection. It quoted his father, Bert Weisheit, "They sure did not allow us to see very much," and defense attorney Joe Perkovich, "I don't know what I saw," and, "There was no pronouncement of death," about the period the witnesses could see. Attorney General Todd Rokita's statement, as the Capital Chronicle printed it, said, "Nothing can ever bring their children back, and the pain of this loss will never fully leave them." The 2013 conviction and the death sentence were the judgment for the killings. Thursday's injection carried that sentence out. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.