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  2. Capital punishment in Indiana - Wikipedia

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    The Indiana General Assembly enacted a new death penalty sentencing statute to replace the statute struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Furman in 1973. In 1977, the Indiana Supreme Court struck down Indiana's 1973 capital punishment statute based on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Woodson v. North Carolina. The death sentences of the ...

  3. List of people executed in Indiana - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Indiana carries out first execution in 15 years, putting ...

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    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 ...

  5. Indiana wants to execute Joseph Corcoran. Here's why his ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of people executed by the United States federal government

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    Marion County Jail, Indiana: The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping June 19, 1936 Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma The only person executed under the Federal Kidnapping Act in which the victim did not die. Earl ...

  7. Joseph Corcoran to be executed for quadruple murder in ... - AOL

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    Indiana officials have not executed an inmate since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of his estranged wife, her sister and her brother-in-law.

  8. Joseph Edward Corcoran - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Judicial override - Wikipedia

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    Only four U.S. states have allowed judicial overrides: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, and Indiana.Indiana abolished it in 2002, [1] Florida in 2016, and Alabama in 2017. [2] In 2016, the Delaware Supreme Court declared the state's death penalty law unconstitutional due to the override.