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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 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.
The death sentences of the eight men on Indiana's death row were set aside. On October 1, 1977, a new Indiana capital punishment statute, modeled on statutes upheld by U.S. Supreme Court, took effect. It remains in effect today. [4] The execution chamber, [5] and men's death row are in Indiana State Prison. [6]
On April 9, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana vacated the death sentences of Corcoran after finding that his constitutional rights were violated when Allen County Prosecutor Robert Gevers had pursued the death penalty when Corcoran rejected both a bench trial and a plea deal to take the death penalty off the ...
Anti-death penalty advocates called on Holcomb to stop the upcoming state execution of Joseph Corcoran and end the practice in Indiana.
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 ...
What states still have the death penalty? Twenty-one states have the death penalty. They are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky ...
In 1987, the Indiana legislature passed a bill raising the minimum age for a defendant in a death penalty case from 10 years old to 16 years old. Although the change was a reaction to Cooper's case, the legislature made it clear that the change did not affect Cooper's death sentence. In 1988, a Supreme Court decision, Thompson v.
The long-awaited decision in one of Indiana's most high-profile murder cases comes after more than seven years of investigation, nearly three weeks of testimony and 18 hours of deliberation. Abby ...