Joseph Corcoran is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, marking Indiana's first state execution in 15 years.
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, has been 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.
Bricker and Douglas A. Stillwell, inside his family home in Fort Wayne on July 26, 1997. 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. Since Wrinkles was put to death, the state suspended state executions because a combination of drugs used in lethal injections had become unavailable. There has been a years-long nationwide shortage because pharmaceutical companies — particularly in Europe, where opposition to capital punishment is strongest — have refused to sell their products for that purpose. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, announced in June that Corcoran’s execution was to go ahead after the state acquired a drug — pentobarbital — which can be used to carry out executions and is used by multiple states in lethal injections. Corcoran was being held at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Corcoran's attorneys had fought his death sentence for years, arguing that Corcoran was severely mentally ill, which affected his ability to understand and make decision
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