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Indiana Requests Execution Date for Murderer of 2 Children in 2010 Fire
Rokita says Weisheit has exhausted all appeals, and the state wants the execution set 30 to 45 days after the court order.
- On Wednesday, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for Jeffrey Weisheit, convicted of the 2010 murders of two young children in Vanderburgh County.
- Weisheit killed 5-year-old Caleb Lynch and 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch by hog-tying Caleb and igniting railroad flares inside their home in the early morning hours of April 10, 2010; both children died of smoke inhalation.
- Following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 8 decision to decline the case, Weisheit has exhausted all available legal appeals, including his failed federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in 2020.
- Prosecutors requested the state's high court set an execution date 30 to 45 days after granting the motion, which would mark Indiana's fourth execution since capital punishment resumed in 2024.
- The 50-year-old Weisheit remains housed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, while four other men are currently on death row in Indiana as the state's legal proceedings continue.
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Rokita Wants Execution Date for Vanderburgh County Child Killer
Jeffrey Weisheit (Source: Vanderburgh County Jail) VANDERBURGH COUNTY, Ind. — Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a motion with the Indiana Supreme Court to seek an execution date for a man convicted of murdering two children in Vanderburgh County 16 years ago. In 2012, Jeffrey Weisheit was found guilty of the murders of 5-year-old Caleb Lynch and 7-year-old Alyssa Lynch in 2010. Weisheit tied up Caleb with duct tape and then lit rail…
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