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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.
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]
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 (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.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday set Corcoran's execution date for Dec. 18 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. ... sentenced to death in 1999. Indiana's last execution was in 2009 ...
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 ...
A man who killed four people including his brother in 1997 will be put to death in Indiana – the state’s first execution in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, 49, was on death row since his 1999 ...
What to know about Joseph Edward Corcoran, a 49-year-old Indiana death row inmate who is set to be executed Wednesday for a quadruple murder. Indiana set to execute Joseph Corcoran for 1997 ...