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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Indiana. The last person executed in the state, excluding federal executions in Terre Haute, was the murderer Matthew Wrinkles in 2009. Federal executions take place at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana; however the state has no control over executions there.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 20 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.
Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana Killed an Indiana State Police trooper during a bank robbery in Logansport, Indiana on May 25, 1937. [22] [23] Nelson Charles Hanging Murder November 10, 1939 Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska Killed his mother-in-law in the Alaska federal territory. [24] Herbert Hans Haupt: Electrocution
Anti-death penalty advocates called on Holcomb to stop the upcoming state execution of Joseph Corcoran and end the practice in Indiana.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
The sustained decline of the death penalty is about much more than access to a lethal drug. Lethal injection drug makes poor excuse to bring back Indiana's death penalty Skip to main content
Indiana: 11 December 2009 [83] Matthew Eric Wrinkles: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Iowa: 6 September 1962 [84] Charles Edwin Kelley: murder: hanging: C Kansas: 22 June 1965: George York and James Latham: murder: hanging: C Kentucky: 21 November 2008 [85] Marco Allen Chapman: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C Louisiana: 7 January ...
Since being sentenced in 1999, Joseph Corcoran had spent more than two decades on death row at Indiana State Prison while his appeals against the death penalty, which had been vacated more than once before its re-instatement, were ongoing. At the time of Corcoran's sentencing in 1999, 45 death row inmates were on death row at Indiana State ...