2026年11月5日 美国东部时间凌晨4:45 / CBS/美联社
一名承认杀害女友两个孩子的印第安纳州男子于周四清晨被执行死刑，这是美国当天预定进行的三次注射死刑中的第一起。
2010年，杰弗里·魏斯海特在埃文斯维尔地区纵火烧毁女友的房屋，导致8岁和5岁的孩子死亡。
印第安纳州惩教署首席通讯官诺埃勒·拉塞尔表示，魏斯海特在密歇根城的印第安纳州立监狱被执行死刑，注射死刑于午夜时分启动，他于凌晨12点45分被宣告死亡。
她说，魏斯海特的最后一餐是烧烤排骨，他没有留下遗言。
佛罗里达州和阿拉巴马州也预定于周四执行死刑，这将是今年美国第二次在同一天处决三人。
今年8月13日，阿拉巴马州、田纳西州和俄克拉荷马州曾执行过死刑。
如果此次执行顺利，将是共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯任内佛罗里达州今年第19次执行死刑，追平该州2025年创下的纪录，同时这也是印第安纳州今年首次执行死刑。
自今年9月田纳西州对克里斯塔·派克的执行失败以来，死刑再度受到审视。派克在两次注射戊巴比妥后存活下来，此后法院驳回了暂停其他死刑执行的申请。
在执行失败事件发生一个月后，派克通过律师发布声明称：“自从我在医院里茫然醒来的那一刻起，我每一刻都在承受痛苦。我从未想过那晚之后还能活下去。”
魏斯海特的律师请求印第安纳州共和党州长迈克·布劳恩允许对50岁的魏斯海特进行脑部扫描，以进一步证明他有头部受伤和精神问题的病史。布劳恩拒绝了这一请求，同时驳回了将其刑期减为无期徒刑的申请。
魏斯海特最新的异议在于，该州计划使用的致死药物购自一家药店，而这家药店下周将面临印第安纳州药品委员会的纪律听证会。印第安纳州惩教署表示，他们有信心“能够人道地执行”此次死刑。
执行死刑后，布劳恩发表简短声明，指出魏斯海特的案件已多次经州和联邦法院审理。
“这些审理从未导致判决被推翻，”他说，“今天，魏斯海特已被执行法院判处的刑罚。”
印第安纳州总检察长托德·罗基塔表示，此次死刑为“艾莉莎·林奇和她的弟弟迦勒伸张了迟到的正义，这两名无辜儿童的生命因一场难以言喻的残酷行径被夺走”。
佛罗里达州预定执行的死刑
在佛罗里达州，杰西·瓜尔达多承认并迅速认罪，他于2004年在沃尔顿县一名75岁女性的家中刺死了她，之后偷走了她的首饰盒、80美元和其他贵重物品以维持毒瘾。此前这名女性曾帮助他找到工作和住所。
2024年，联邦上诉法院裁定，现年64岁的瓜尔达多在死刑判决阶段获得了“充分且公正的”审理。
今年美国已执行的32起死刑中，佛罗里达州占了一半以上。将于1月卸任的德桑蒂斯表示，他的目标是为等待数十年才等到死刑判决执行的家属伸张正义。
阿拉巴马州预定执行的死刑
54岁的迈克尔·泰勒将在阿拉巴马州被执行死刑，距他在加兹登的家中抢劫时用金属棒殴打一对老年夫妇致死已过去35年。警方在距离案发地一小时车程的伯明翰逮捕了当时19岁的泰勒，他驾驶着受害者的凯迪拉克。此次执行将是该州今年的第三次死刑执行。
反对死刑的人士曾敦促共和党州长凯·艾维将泰勒的刑期减为无期徒刑，指出他作案时年纪尚轻且心智尚未成熟，但艾维拒绝了。
“如果该州处决迈克尔，被处决的并非当年犯下人生中最严重错误的19岁少年，而是如今坐在那个囚室里成熟、受人尊敬且敬畏上帝的男人，”废除死刑希望项目的埃丝特·布朗说道。
该州计划对泰勒执行注射死刑，此前一名法官裁定氮气执行方式违宪。他的律师反对临时改为注射死刑，因为泰勒多年前选定了氮气执行方式，但一名法官驳回了泰勒的请求。
First of 3 U.S. executions set for Thursday carried out in Indiana
November 5, 2026 / 4:45 AM EST / CBS/AP
An Indiana man who admitted killing his girlfriend’s two children was executed early Thursday in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S.
Jeffrey Weisheit killed the children, ages 8 and 5, by setting fire to his girlfriend’s house in the Evansville area in 2010.
Weisheit died at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. The lethal injection started just after midnight and he was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m., according to Noelle Russell, Indiana Department of Correction chief communications officer.
She said Weisheit’s final meal was barbecue ribs and he had no final words.
Florida and Alabama were also set to carry out executions Thursday, which would mark the second time this year that three people in the U.S. would be put to death on the same day.
Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma conducted executions on Aug. 13.
It would be Florida’s 19th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, matching a record set by the state in 2025, but was the first this year in Indiana.
The death penalty has faced renewed scrutiny following the September failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, although courts have rejected efforts to halt other executions since she survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital.
Pike said in a statement dictated to her lawyers and released a month after the botched execution that she’s been in pain every moment since she woke up confused in a hospital. “I had not contemplated life beyond that night,” she said.
Lawyers wanted Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun to allow Weisheit, 50, to undergo brain scans in an effort to reinforce their argument that he has a history of head injuries and mental health problems. Braun declined, and he also turned down a request to reduce the sentence to life in prison.
Weisheit’s latest objection centered on the state’s planned use of lethal drugs purchased from a pharmacy that is facing a disciplinary hearing next week at the Indiana Pharmacy Board. The Indiana Department of Correction said it’s confident “in our ability to humanely carry out” the execution.
Following the execution, Braun issued a brief statement noting Weisheit’s case was reviewed many times by state and federal courts.
“These reviews have never resulted in an overturned sentence,” he said. “Today, Weisheit’s sentence has been carried out as ordered by the court.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said that the execution provided “long-awaited justice for Alyssa Lynch and her brother Caleb, two innocent children whose lives were stolen in an act of unspeakable cruelty.”
The execution on tap in Florida
In Florida, Jesse Guardado confessed and quickly pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton County home in 2004 before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to support his drug habit. She had helped him get a job and housing.
A federal appeals court in 2024 said Guardado, now 64, had received a “full and fair” hearing during the death penalty phase of his case.
Florida has carried out more than half the 32 total executions in the U.S. so far this year. DeSantis, who leaves office in January, has said that his goal is to bring justice to families who have waited decades for the death sentences to be carried out.
Alabama’s scheduled execution
Michael Taylor, 54, faces execution in Alabama, 35 years after fatally beating an older couple with a metal bar during a robbery in their Gadsden home. Police arrested the 19-year-old Taylor with the victims’ Cadillac, an hour away in Birmingham. The execution would be the state’s third this year.
Death penalty opponents had urged Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to reduce Taylor’s sentence to life in prison, noting his age and immaturity at the time of the killings. She declined.
“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,” said Esther Brown of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty.
The state plans to execute Taylor by lethal injection after a judge declared a nitrogen gas method unconstitutional. His attorneys objected to the last-minute switch to lethal injection since he selected nitrogen gas as his method several years ago, but a judge ruled against Taylor.
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