Indiana Executes Jeffrey Weisheit

What happened

Updated 5:21am ET

Indiana executed Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, by lethal injection early Thursday at Indiana State Prison, where officials pronounced him dead at 12:45 a.m.
Weisheit admitted killing his girlfriend’s children, Alyssa, 8, and Caleb, 5, by setting fire to their home near Evansville in 2010.
Before the execution, his lawyers sought a halt and an independent review, alleging Indiana obtained its lethal drugs from a pharmacy on probation and facing possible license suspension.
Gov. Mike Braun declined to commute Weisheit’s sentence to life without parole and said courts had repeatedly reviewed the case without overturning his sentence.
Florida and Alabama were scheduled to carry out executions later Thursday, which would make it the second day this year with three U.S. executions.

How the left told it

Left-leaning outlets were represented only by HuffPost, which framed Indiana’s execution as the first of three scheduled nationwide that day. It also highlighted renewed scrutiny of lethal injections after Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike and the defense’s unsuccessful request for brain scans to support clemency.

How the right told it

Right-leaning outlets mostly framed the execution around Weisheit’s killings and the three executions scheduled nationwide. Fox News and the New York Post emphasized that broader schedule, while the Daily Mail detailed the children’s deaths and his final meal. Just the News instead focused on lawyers’ challenge to Indiana’s lethal-drug supplier.