Joseph Corcoran, convicted of murdering four people in 1997, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday by lethal injection in Indiana. This marks the state's first execution in 15 years after obtaining the necessary lethal injection drugs.
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 conviction and, despite late appeals on the grounds that he was severely mentally ill, is set to be executed Wednesday by lethal injection at Indiana State Prison. Corcoran fatally shot his brother James Corcoran, 30, his sister's fiancé Robert Scott Turner, 32, and two other 30-year-old men, Timothy G.
Five years earlier, he was acquitted in the shooting death of his parents after the jury found insufficient evidence to convict him. Indiana’s last state execution was in 2009 when Matthew Wrinkles was put to death for killing his wife, her brother and sister-in-law in 1994. Thirteen executions have been carried out in Indiana since Wrinkle's execution, but those were initiated and performed by federal officials in 2020 and 2021 at a federal prison.
His attorneys felt that the denial gave some bit of hope to stave off the execution as the justices were split 3-2. 'Given that it is a close case, it shouldn’t be rushed through,' defense attorney Larry Komp said previously. 'He’s so extremely mentally ill. We think he’s irrational. We’ve never had a fair process.
’m at a loss for words. I’m just really upset that they’re doing it close to Christmas,' she said. 'My sister and I, our birthdays are in December. I mean, it just feels like it’s going to ruin Christmas for the rest of our lives. That’s just what it feels like.' Earlier this year, Alabama became the first state to use nitrogen gas for an execution when it carried out the death penalty for convicted killer Kenneth Smith.
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