Jeffrey Weisheit was executed Thursday morning just after midnight in Michigan City after spending 13 years on death row condemned as a child killer. But, his attorneys argue that the State of Indiana should not have proceeded with the execution after buying the drugs from a pharmacy that they believe would have been shut down were it not the only place to procure the execution drugs.
A statement from Weisheit’s legal team following the execution again outlined their doubts about the drugs and the protocols and procedures.
“The governor, the attorney general, and the corrections department-chose in unison to debase themselves to carry out his execution in the face of facts-not allegations, but incontrovertible facts-from records the Department of Correction produced and administrative proceedings of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy showing that on September 25,2026, the day after the pharmacy board ordered Pharmaneek, Inc. to show why it should not be immediately shut down, the Department of Correction paid Pharmaneek $275,000 to supply it execution drugs that, when sold as medicine to a hospital, cost $9,000,” read the statement.
Weisheiut’s team argues that the company was considered suspect until it became clear they would be needed to supply the lethal drugs, but got a pass until the execution was done.
“Instead of being shut down on October 5, as the pharmacy board originally envisioned, Pharmaneek preserved that sale of illicitly procured medicine off the gray market and outside legal channels and succeeded first in postponing its hearing to November 9, 2026-four days after the execution date for which it had just sold the execution drugs-and yet again pushed it off to December 14, 2026. Pharmaneek thus will continue its operations for at least another 10 weeks from the date that the Board of Pharmacy had originally set its hearing to suspend its license unless it showed why it should escape that fate after violating the terms of its probation.”
Statements from Gov. Braun and Attorney Gen. Todd Rokita did not controvert the accusations by the legal team, but rather addressed the facts head on, that the execution was ordered and was carried out.
Weisheit’s team argues that the morality of the means of it being carried out is in question because the state, to preserve a way to put Weisheit to death, ignored the practices of a company they considered questionable until it was needed.
