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“Your facility is not maintained in a good state of repair, creating insanitary conditions whereby drug products may be contaminated with filth.” — U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspection report for Pharmaneek
With just hours before Indiana’s fourth execution in two years, lawyers for the condemned man tied the state’s pentobarbital to an embattled pharmacy facing suspension.
Also late Monday, Gov. Mike Braun denied clemency to Jeffrey Weisheit, and his execution remains scheduled for Thursday.
Secretary of state candidates Democrat Beau Bayh and Republican Max Engling spent the final day before the election making their final play for the office.
Braun touts drop in childcare waitlist.
Plus, how high utility bills are impacting elections in other states.
Gov. Mike Braun is being asked to halt Jeffrey Weisheit’s Nov. 5 execution while Indiana reviews its lethal injection procedures and drug procurement. (Getty Images)
Pharmacy linked to Indiana execution drug invoice faces possible suspension
By Casey Smith
Lawyers seeking a reprieve for Jeffrey Weisheit ahead of his execution this week say Indiana purchased pentobarbital, the lethal injection drug it plans to use, from Pharmaneek Inc., an Indianapolis pharmacy on probation and facing possible suspension of its license.
Weisheit’s attorneys asked Gov. Mike Braun on Monday to halt the Nov. 5 execution and order an independent review of Indiana’s lethal injection procedures and drug purchases. Their application cites pharmacy inspection problems, questions about execution team qualifications and gaps in planning for complications.
Republican secretary of state candidate Max Engling, left, takes the microphone from Indiana Gov. Mike Braun during a Republican Party rally on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. (Photo by Tom Davies/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Candidates make final appeals in tough Indiana secretary of state’s race
By Tom Davies
A bevy of Indiana Republican leaders at a party rally Monday urged conservatives to keep up a final push for GOP secretary of state candidate Max Engling going into Tuesday’s Election Day.
Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Beau Bayh started the final full day of the campaign by visiting an Indianapolis park’s memorial to his late mother before his own rally with labor union members later Monday.
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A group of Maine residents protest a proposed electricity price increase ahead of an October 2025 public hearing in Freeport. Rising utility prices are increasingly drawing scrutiny from voters and state officials. (Photo by AnnMarie Hilton/Maine Morning Star)
Voters make governors, utility regulators answer for high power bills
By Kevin Hardy
As broad affordability concerns define elections across the country, voters in several states on Tuesday will have a say on their future utility bills.
State utility regulators, who are facing heightened levels of attention and scrutiny amid high prices, are on the ballot in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
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