Joseph Corcoran was executed Wednesday for the 1997 murders of four people, marking Indiana's first execution in 15 years.
An Indiana man convicted in the 1997 killing of four people including his brother and his sister’s fiancé was put to death on Wednesday in the state’s first execution in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, according to the Indiana Department of Correction, making it the 24th execution in the U.S. this year.
He was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, although officials did not mention that drug in their statement. Prison officials said his last meal was Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Corcoran was convicted in the July 1997 shootings of his brother, 30-year-old James Corcoran; his sister’s fiancé, 32-year-old Robert Scott Turner, and two other men, 30-year-old Timothy G. Bricker and 30-year-old Douglas A. Stillwell. Prior to the shooting, Corcoran was under stress because his sister's upcoming marriage would require moving out of the home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that he shared with his brother and sister, according to court records. During his time in jail for those killings, Corcoran reportedly bragged about shooting and killing his parents in 1992 in northern Indiana’s Steuben County, for which he was charged but later acquitted. The execution on Wednesday comes after Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, announced plans in June to resume state executions following a 15-year hiatus caused by difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs. The state provided limited details about the execution process, and no members of the press were allowed as witnesses under state law. But Corcoran chose a reporter for the Indiana Capital Chronicle as one of his witnesses. Indiana and Wyoming are the only two states in the country that do not allow members of the media to witness state executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Cente
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