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The following constitutes murder with aggravating circumstances, which is the only capital crime in Indiana. [8]The defendant committed the murder by intentionally killing the victim while committing or attempting to commit any of the following: arson, burglary, child molesting, criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping, rape, robbery, carjacking, criminal organization activity, dealing in cocaine ...
Corcoran would be Indiana's first execution in 15 years. Indiana officials have not executed an inmate since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders ...
Corcoran’s execution is the 24th carried out in the United States this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Indiana is the ninth state to put at least one inmate to death in ...
Anti-death penalty advocates called on Holcomb to stop the upcoming state execution of Joseph Corcoran and end the practice in Indiana.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution.
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [93] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [94] [95]
Indiana and Wyoming are the only two states that do not allow members of the media to witness state executions, according to a recent report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Joseph Edward Corcoran (April 18, 1975 – December 18, 2024) was an American convicted mass murderer who was executed for a quadruple murder case in Indiana. Corcoran was found guilty of the 1997 murders of his brother, his sister's fiancé, and two of their friends at his house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he was sentenced to death in 1999.