Lawyers rush to halt Indiana execution over state’s lethal drug supplier

Hours before Indiana was poised to carry out its first execution of the year, set for Thursday before sunrise, lawyers and supporters for the condemned man rallied to spare his life after new details emerged about the state’s secretive process of obtaining lethal injection drugs. Attorneys for Jeffrey Weisheit, 50, called on Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to halt his lethal injection execution and order an independent review of the state’s procedures over allegations that the state obtained its chemicals from a pharmacy currently on probation and facing suspension of its license. “Laid bare, the apparent conduct here is patently unworthy of the public’s confidence in the solemn exercise of state power in taking a human being’s life in the name of the people,” Joe Perkovich, an attorney for Weisheit, said in a statement Wednesday.