Indiana inmate execution carried out this morning

Death row inmate Joseph Corcoran was executed early this morning, the first execution in Indiana in 15 years.

His execution was carried out despite several attempts by advocates to stop the execution in the last few weeks, including an attempt at a stay of execution that a judge denied on Monday.

Corcoran was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murders of his brother, James Corcoran; his sister’s fiancé, Robert Scott Turner; and two of their friends, Timothy Bricker and Douglass Stillwell.

Corcoran’s execution began shortly after midnight this morning at at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. Before the execution was carried out he asked for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream as his last meal.

His execution is the first execution to be carried out in Indiana since 2009. There had been a pause on all executions in the state due to a lack of the drug cocktail needed to carry out lethal injection.

Story courtesy of Network Indiana