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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 Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
The governor said he believes the death penalty, and resuming executions, will discourage particularly gruesome violent acts. Corcoran, 49, of Allen County was sentenced to death in 1999 for ...
Anti-death penalty advocates called on Holcomb to stop the upcoming state execution of Joseph Corcoran and end the practice in Indiana.
Crystal Walker, a chaplain at the Indiana Women's Prison, speaks at an anti-death penalty rally on the Indiana Statehouse steps Sunday, Nov. 17, urging Gov. Eric Holcomb not to resume state ...
Police were summoned to the Camm residence shortly after 9:30 p.m. on September 28, 2000, to find Kim, Bradley, and Jill Camm shot to death in the garage of their home. David Camm told police that he returned home from playing basketball at a nearby church and found his wife shot to death on the garage floor.
Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 1997, was executed in Indiana early Wednesday, state prison officials announced, marking Indiana’s first execution in 15 years.