Overview
- Jeffrey Weisheit was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. Thursday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, completing the first of three scheduled U.S. executions that day.
- Indiana courts and Governor Mike Braun rejected last‑minute legal efforts to delay the execution and denied clemency requests, with the Indiana Supreme Court voting 3‑2 against a 10‑day stay.
- Weisheit’s lawyers alleged the state used pentobarbital obtained from an Indianapolis pharmacy identified in filings as Pharmaneek, citing a heavily redacted $275,000 invoice and a Department of Correction inventory that added six vials on Oct. 29.
- The reprieve filings point to inspection reports and state licensing records showing Pharmaneek on probation and FDA findings of unsanitary conditions, and lawyers cited Tennessee’s Sept. 30 failed execution of Christa Pike to argue Indiana’s protocol risks catastrophic failure.
- The case puts pressure on the Indiana Board of Pharmacy, which has a hearing scheduled for the pharmacy, and could spur wider court and regulatory probes into how states secretly procure execution drugs and whether those practices endanger inmates or undercut public confidence.