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Three executions are scheduled in Indiana, Florida and Alabama
Three states planned executions for the same Thursday: Indiana, Florida and Alabama were each set to carry out a lethal injection.
Indiana planned to execute Jeffrey Weisheit, convicted of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend’s two children near Evansville in 2010.
Florida’s Jesse Guardado was convicted of killing a woman in 2004, and his execution would bring the state to 19 this year, matching its record from 2025.
Alabama planned to execute Michael Taylor for killing an older couple during a robbery when he was 19.
The governors of Indiana and Alabama rejected requests to reduce the men’s sentences to life in prison, and courts rejected efforts to stop the executions.
The scheduled executions add to scrutiny of the death penalty after Tennessee’s execution of Christa Pike failed last month; the states said they planned to proceed.
Executions were scheduled in Indiana, Florida and Alabama for the same Thursday.
The planned executions would be the second time this year that three people were put to death on the same day.
Indiana planned to execute Jeffrey Weisheit, convicted of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend’s two children.
Florida planned to execute Jesse Guardado, convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 2004.
Alabama planned to execute Michael Taylor, convicted of killing an older couple during a robbery when he was 19.
- Who
- Jeffrey Weisheit in Indiana, Jesse Guardado in Florida and Michael Taylor in Alabama.
- What
- The states planned to carry out three executions by lethal injection.
- When
- Thursday. The article was published on November 4, 2026.
- Where
- Indiana, Florida and Alabama.
- Why
- The men were sentenced to death for separate killings.
State authorities and governors
Death penalty opponents
Execution
State authorities and governors
Indiana, Florida and Alabama planned to carry out the sentences.
Death penalty opponents
Opponents urged governors to reduce the sentences of Weisheit and Taylor to life in prison.
Jesse Guardado fatally stabbed a 75-year-old woman in her Walton County home.
A fire set by Jeffrey Weisheit killed his girlfriend’s two children in the Evansville area.
A federal appeals court said Guardado had received a full and fair hearing during the death penalty phase of his case.
Indiana, Florida and Alabama planned to carry out executions.
- Scheduled executions
- 3
- Indiana
- Jeffrey Weisheit
- Florida
- Jesse Guardado
- Alabama
- Michael Taylor
- Florida executions this year
- 19 planned, matching the state record set in 2025
What people are saying
in our ability to humanely carry out
If the state kills Michael, it is not the 19-year-old who made the worst mistake of his life who it kills. But the mature, well-respected, God-fearing man sitting in that cell today
full and fair