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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.
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 253 days [84] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
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]
There are currently three men on federal death row. [7] [8] Two of them are housed at USP Terre Haute. The federal government chose Terre Haute as the location of the men's death row due to its central location within the United States. [9] Since 1963, sixteen people have been executed by the United States federal government.
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
When she received the death penalty, she was the youngest person ever to be put on Indiana's Death Row. [5] In 1986, while Cooper was on death row at the Indiana Women's Prison, her case was assigned to a new lawyer, Monica Foster. Foster and others organized a campaign to commute Cooper's death sentence. Two million people signed petitions to ...
On November 3, 2009, after the Indiana Supreme Court declined Wrinkles' final review motion, an execution date of December 11, 2009, was announced. A week later, Wrinkles appeared as a guest, via remote feed from the prison, on a segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show, where he was confronted by members of his victims' families.
The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Terre Haute, Indiana. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice, and consists of two facilities: