Indiana AG seeks execution date for death row inmate convicted in 2010 killings of two children

By: Casey Smith

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: June 17, 2026

Words: 791

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on Wednesday asked the Indiana Supreme Court to schedule the execution of death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit.

The filing came just eight days after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in Weisheit’s case.

He was sentenced to death in 2012 for the murders of 5-year-old Caleb Lynch and his 8-year-old sister, Alyssa Lynch, who were killed in a Vanderburgh County house fire in 2010.

In a verified motion filed …

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