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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.
Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, the Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement.
Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, the Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement. Corcoran was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, but the state agency’s statement did not mention that drug.
Corcoran was convicted of killing the four men on May 22, 1999, and sentenced to death on Aug. 26, 1999. The quadruple murders occurred five years after Corcoran was acquitted of the fatal ...
After the execution, Gov, Eric Holcomb said, "Joseph Corcoran’s case has been reviewed repeatedly over the last 25 years — including 7 times by the Indiana Supreme Court and 3 times by the U.S ...
Joseph Corcoran, 49, has been on Indiana's death row since 1999. If he is put to death as scheduled Wednesday, it will be the state's first execution since 2009. In that time, 13 executions were carried out in Indiana but those were initiated and performed by federal officials in 2020 and 2021 at a federal prison.
Joseph Edward Corcoran, 49, is set to be executed for the July 26, 1997 murders of his brother, sister's fiancé and two of their friends in Indiana. Joseph Corcoran to be executed for quadruple ...
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