Indiana officials are preparing to execute the state's first death row inmate in 15 years, who was convicted a quarter-century ago of killing four men.
David Frank speaks during a gathering of the Indiana Abolition Coalition at the Statehouse, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Indianapolis.
Indiana's resumption of executions is refocusing attention on Corcoran's case and questions about how the state has been able to obtain a drug for lethal injections.Corcoran was 22 on July 26, 1997, when he fatally shot his brother, 30-year-old James Corcoran, and three other men: Douglas A. Stillwell, 30, Timothy G. Bricker, 30, and Robert Scott Turner, 32.
But Ernst, who lives in northeastern Indiana, said she believes the death penalty should be abolished and her brother’s execution won’t solve or change anything. She does not plan to attend his execution. That has prompted states to turn to compounding pharmacies, which manufacture drugs specifically for a client. Some states have switched to more accessible drugs such as the sedatives pentobarbital or midazolam, both of which, critics say, can cause excruciating pain.The federal government also used pentobarbital in the 13 federal executions carried out during the final six months of then-President Donald Trump’s first term.
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