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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 the state’s first execution in 15 years ...
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.
Fellow inmate Rick Pearish noted in a 2013 documentary that Wrinkles shouted, "I'll see you fellas!" down the cell block corridor as a last goodbye whilst being led to the death house on the Indiana State Prison grounds. His execution by lethal injection took place as scheduled; the time of death was 12:39 a.m. CST on December 11, 2009. He was ...
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 ...
"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)
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 ...
His last words were uttered when the South Tower collapsed, taking him along with it. "Fie here Love yous" [18] — Gregory Reda, a manager employed by Marsh McLennan [19] at the North Tower of the World Trade Center (11 September 2001), texting his coworker Michael Cantatore from the 95th floor, one of the impact floors. "I will never die." [20]