Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he has accepted the recommendation from the Indiana Parole Board to deny clemency for Jeffrey Weisheit.
Weisheit was convicted of killing 5-year-old Caleb Lynch and 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch in Evansville in 2010 after setting a house on fire and leading police on a chase into Kentucky.
Gov. Braun released the following statement on Monday:
“I am accepting the Parole Board’s unanimous recommendation to deny clemency for Jeffrey Weisheit. The Indiana Department of Correction will continue preparations to carry out the court-ordered sentence of execution on November 5, 2026.”
The board recommended that Weisheit’s death sentence remain, rather than reducing it to life in prison without parole. Weisheit is set to be executed on Thursday.
Attorneys for Weisheit have asked Gov. Braun to delay the scheduled execution, citing concerns about the pharmacy that supplied the state’s lethal injection drugs. The attorneys said the state purchased $275,000 worth of execution drugs from a pharmacy that is facing disciplinary action from the Indiana Board of Pharmacy over possible safety and sanitation violations.
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The governor should be deciding these things based on his own thoughts about it. Making decisions based on parole board recommendations is a copout. Its part of the job to determine whether to commute or not in the final hours. Is he using the parole board as a scapegoat and means for denial?