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The execution chamber, [1] and men's death row are in Indiana State Prison. [2] Indiana Women's Prison has housed women with death sentences. [3] Previously Indiana law required female death row inmates (not about to be executed) to be held at Indiana State Prison even though it was a male facility. [4]
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.
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.
Six men remain on Indiana’s death row, according to WPTA, an ABC and NBC affiliate in Fort Wayne. The state’s next execution will be that of Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted of gunning down ...
Indiana does allow its death row inmates to order take-out meals from area restaurants, up to $50 worth of food. The food is taken to the prison the night before the execution to avoid the inmate ...
Joseph Corcoran is set to become the first death row inmate to be executed by the state of Indiana since 2009, and his path to the death chamber has caused sorrow to his family, especially his ...
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
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 ...