Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing four people in 1999, was executed early Wednesday in Indiana, marking the state's first execution in 15 years. The execution, carried out with limited details provided, took place at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
Joseph Corcoran was convicted of killing four people in 1999 was put to death early Wednesday, marking the Indiana's first execution in 15 years.An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death early Wednesday, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.
Indiana and Wyoming are the only two states that do not allow members of the media to witness state executions, according to a recent report by the Death Penalty Information Center. While jailed for those killings, Corcoran reportedly bragged about fatally shooting his parents in 1992 in northern Indiana's Steuben County. He was charged in their killings but acquitted.
Corcoran's attorneys then asked the U.S. Supreme Court issue an emergency order halting his execution, but the high court denied their request for a stay late Tuesday, ending Corcoran's options with the courts. "Joseph Corcoran's case has been reviewed repeatedly over the last 25 years - including 7 times by the Indiana Supreme Court and 3 times by the U.S. Supreme Court, the most recent of which was tonight. His sentence has never been overturned and was carried out as ordered by the court," Holcomb said in the statement.
Religious groups, disability rights advocates and others have opposed his execution. About a dozen people, some holding candles, held a vigil late Tuesday to pray outside the prison, which is surrounded by barbed wire fences in a residential area about 60 miles east of Chicago.
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