Indiana’s governor turned down a clemency request and says an execution planned for Thursday will go forward against a man who killed his girlfriend’s two children in 2010. Gov. Mike Braun said Monday he accepted the Indiana Parole Board’s recommendation to let the death sentence stand against Jeffrey Weisheit. The 50-year-old had a right to ask Braun to reduce the death sentence to a life sentence. Two children died in a house fire in the Evansville area 16 years ago. Their mother was at work at the time. Her relationship with Weisheit was breaking down.

Elected officials are decrying a spike in mass shootings across the U.S. over the Halloween weekend. The shootings that happened in largely nightlife districts left at least eight people dead and dozens more injured. Federal authorities in Dallas plan to address their response to a series of shootings that left four people dead and 15 injured in the city's Deep Ellum neighborhood. Elsewhere, about a half dozen shootings occurred in entertainment areas around college campuses nationwide.

An Idaho appeals court is scheduled to hear Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal of her convictions in Idaho for killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. She is asking the Idaho Supreme Court on Monday to reverse her convictions in the deaths of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, Tylee Ryan and Tammy Daybell, whose husband married Vallow Daybell weeks later. Vallow Daybell holds doomsday religious beliefs and claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits. She also has been convicted in Arizona for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband.

A former Massachusetts police detective is being tried on charges that he killed a pregnant woman to hide that he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15. Matthew Farwell is accused of strangling Sandra Birchmore in 2021. An initial police investigation quickly concluded that Birchmore's death was a suicide. But the FBI began looking into the case two years later. Security camera footage places Farwell at Birchmore's home the night she died. Investigators recovered 40,000 texts between the two. Farwell's lawyers acknowledge that the married detective had an affair with Birchmore but say he did not kill her.