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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]
As of October 1, 2024, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]
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 ...
Indiana does allow its death row inmates to order take-out meals from area restaurants, up to $50 worth of food. The food is taken to the prison the night before the execution to avoid the inmate ...
A third Evansville-area man, John Stephenson, escaped death row in 2017 when the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his death sentence for the March 1996 murders of Jay Tyler Jr ...
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.
An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister’s fiancé decades ago was put to death Wednesday, marking the state’s first execution in 15 years. Joseph ...