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“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.
Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 1997, was executed in Indiana early Wednesday, state prison officials announced, marking Indiana’s first execution in 15 years.
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.
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.
The following constitutes murder with aggravating circumstances, which is the only capital crime in Indiana. [8]The defendant committed the murder by intentionally killing the victim while committing or attempting to commit any of the following: arson, burglary, child molesting, criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping, rape, robbery, carjacking, criminal organization activity, dealing in cocaine ...
Corcoran was convicted of killing the four men on May 22, 1999, and sentenced to death on Aug. 26, 1999. The quadruple murders occurred five years after Corcoran was acquitted of the fatal ...
A man charged in a 2022 robbery that resulted in the death of a 31-year-old man was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday. ... Fowler's jury trial is set to begin on Aug. 26. ... Man sentenced to ...
"It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17] [note 94] — Henry Vane the Younger, English politician, statesman and colonial governor (14 June 1662), prior to execution by beheading for treason "My God, forsake me not." [17] [note 95] — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (19 August 1662)