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Indiana governor says execution will go ahead Thursday against man who killed 2 kids

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Indiana's governor said an execution planned for this week would go forward for a man who set a fire that killed his girlfriend's two children in 2010.

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  1. Eyewitness News (WEHT/WTVW)

    Gov. Braun accepts recommendation to put convicted child killer to death (opens Eyewitness News (WEHT/WTVW))

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    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WEHT) -- Indiana Governor Mike Braun has accepted a recommendation to deny clemency for Jeffrey Weisheit. Weisheit submitted a request in September to commute his death sentence to a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

  2. ABC 13 Houston

    Indiana governor says execution will go ahead Thursday against man who killed 2 kids (opens ABC 13 Houston)

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    Indiana's governor said an execution planned for this week would go forward for a man who set a fire that killed his girlfriend's two children in 2010.

  3. FOX 59 Indianapolis

    Governor Braun denies clemency as killer's attorneys argue against execution drugs (opens FOX 59 Indianapolis)

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    INDIANAPOLIS— Governor Mike Braun today concurred with the Indiana Parole Board to reject a clemency plea by Jeffrey Weisheit; the Evansville man convicted of murdering two children in a 2010 house arson.

  4. Just the News

    Death row inmate's attorneys move to halt Indiana execution over state’s lethal drug supplier (opens Just the News)

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    Weisheit, who was convicted of the 2010 murders of two young children in a house fire, has not contested his guilt but asked Braun to commute his sentence to life in prison without parole.

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