Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 last person executed in the state, excluding federal executions in Terre Haute, was mass murderer Joseph Edward Corcoran in 2024. Federal executions take place at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana; however the state has no control over executions there. The execution chamber, [1] and men's death row are in Indiana State ...
Six men remain on Indiana’s death row, according to WPTA, an ABC and NBC affiliate in Fort Wayne. The state’s next execution will be that of Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted of gunning down ...
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.
Indiana’s last state execution was in 2009 when Matthew Wrinkles was put to death for killing his wife, her brother and sister-in-law in 1994. ... Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Executed For Double ...
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.
Joseph Corcoran, 49, has been on Indiana's death row since 1999. If he is put to death as scheduled Wednesday, it will be the state's first execution since 2009. In that time, 13 executions were carried out in Indiana but those were initiated and performed by federal officials in 2020 and 2021 at a federal prison.
An Indiana death row inmate convicted of murdering his brother, his sister's fiancé and their two friends because he thought they were talking about him behind his back is a day away from execution.