The Indiana Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution of man convicted in the killings of his brother and three other men. The court in an order dated Thursday also denied petitions by Joseph Corcoran’s lawyers to argue claims on whether the scheduled Dec.
The Indiana Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution of man convicted in the killings of his brother and three other men.
Corcoran has been on death row since 1999. He exhausted his appeals in 2016. He had argued that the execution would be unconstitutional because he suffers from a mental illness and that the state had failed to disclose its execution protocol. But his lawyers wrote in a filing Tuesday that “there exist serious concerns about Corcoran’s mental state as his execution looms.”
Larry Komp, an appointed public defender for Corcoran, said Friday that the 3-2 Supreme Court ruling “demonstrates this was a close call.”
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