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Convicted for his participation in a series of drug-related killings. Two of Johnson's accomplices – Richard Tipton and James H. Roane Jr. – were similarly condemned to federal death row but their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment upon receiving clemency from outgoing President Joe Biden in 2024. Louis Jones Jr. 1995 March ...
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]
The state of Indiana resumed executions after 15 years. An inmate has not been executed in Indiana since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of ...
“Blinds to the witness room were closed by the prison warden at 12:40 a.m.” Six men remain on Indiana’s death row, according to WPTA, an ABC and NBC affiliate in Fort Wayne. The state’s ...
The last execution of a state prisoner in Indiana was Dec. 11, 2009, and there are now eight men sentenced to death on state's death row. Joseph E. Corcoran is first in line when Indiana resumes ...
After being sentenced in 1999, Joseph Corcoran 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 Prison. [49]
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 ...