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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s attorney general on Tuesday asked the state’s Supreme Court to set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of murdering two young children in a fire in 2010.
The attorney general’s court filing argued that Jeffrey Weisheit, of Evansville, has exhausted the available avenues of legal review and that no active stay of execution is in place, leaving the court with a duty to schedule the date.
The Indiana Supreme Court’s decision is pending.
The 50-year-old Weisheit is housed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, online records of the state Department of Correction show. Four other men are on death row in Indiana, online records show.
In the early morning hours of April 10, 2010, Weisheit hog-tied 5-year-old Caleb Lynch, placed railroad flares in the child’s underwear, and ignited them before fleeing the Lynches’ home in Evansville. Caleb’s 8-year-old sister, Alyssa Lynch, was also inside the house at the time. The flames killed both children.
Weisheit fled Indiana and was later captured in Kentucky following a high-speed chase, during which he threw a knife at the officers who apprehended him.
Weisheit was convicted in Clark Circuit Court in Jeffersonville of two counts of murder and one count of arso...
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