Florida, Alabama and Indiana are set to carry out executions Thursday, which would mark the second time this year that three death row inmates have been put to death on the same day.The first such day this year took place on August 13, when Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama executed three inmates within hours of each other.In Florida, Thursday's execution would be the state's 19th of 2026, matching the record set last year.Alabama is preparing for its third execution of the year, while Indiana is set to carry out its first.Jesse Guardado, 64, is scheduled to be executed in Florida after confessing and pleading guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman who had helped him find a job and housing in 2004.FLORIDA PUTS 77-YEAR-OLD MAN TO DEATH FOR DEPUTY'S MURDER AS STATE CLOSES IN ON EXECUTION RECORDJesse Guardado, Michael Taylor and Jeffrey Weisheit are facing execution on the same day.
(Florida, Alabama and Indiana Departments of Corrections)Guardado killed Jackie Malone inside her home before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other items to fund his drug addiction."Jesse Guardado has accepted responsibility for killing Jackie Malone and has consistently expressed deep remorse.Florida should accept responsibility for what it did to him as a child, too," Grace Hanna, executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said in a statement while urging the state to halt the execution.Florida has ramped up executions as Republican Gov.
Ron DeSantis has signed a series of death warrants since 2025.The state carried out a record 19 executions last year, more than under any other Florida governor in a single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Those executions accounted for roughly 40% of the 47 carried out nationwide in 2025.Florida has also accounted for more than half of the 32 executions carried out nationwide so far in 2026.In July, Florida executed two prisoners on the same day, marking the first double execution by a single s...