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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
Bordelon waived his appeals and asked to be executed, saying he would commit a similar crime again if he was ever given the opportunity. Bordelon was executed at Louisiana State Penitentiary on January 7, 2010, becoming the first person executed in Louisiana since 2002 and the state's first voluntary execution. [2]
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.
Corcoran would be Indiana's first execution in 15 years. Indiana officials have not executed an inmate since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders ...
Joseph Corcoran, an Allen County man convicted of killing four people, is set to be the first death row inmate to be executed in Indiana in 15 years.. The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday set ...
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 ...
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.
Before 1913 all executions in Indiana were done by hanging. On February 20, 1914, the first electrocution occurred. From 1913 to 1994 executions were performed via electric chair. Lethal injection has been used in Indiana from 1995 up to the present. [13] Currently all state executions must be carried out in the Indiana State Prison.