Indiana executes prisoner despite lawyers’ concerns over state’s lethal drug supplier – NBC News

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Indiana carried out its first execution of the year early Thursday after lawyers for the condemned man failed in their bid to stop it, despite new details emerging about the state’s secretive process of obtaining lethal injection drugs. Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, was put to death at Indiana State Prison shortly after midnight for the 2010 murders of two young children in a house fire, state officials said. He had no last words and was pronounced dead 45 minutes later. The state does not generally allow media witnesses to attend, and Weisheit’s legal team could not immediately be reached for comment about his execution.

The race to spare his life had ended up before the Indiana Supreme Court late Wednesday, when the state’s highest court voted 3-2 to allow the execution to proceed. The dissenting justices would have permitted temporarily pausing the execution for 10 days to sort out questions over the lethal drugs. After the execution, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the state was delivering “long-awaited justice” for victims Alyssa Lynch, 8, and her brother, Caleb, 5. “This case stands as a clear affirmation that those who commit the