USA: Further Information: Indiana carries out its first execution since 2009

Joseph Corcoran was executed in Indiana in the early hours of 18 December 2024. He was convicted in 1999 of the murder of four men in 1997 and sentenced to death. He had long been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, with symptoms that include hallucinations and delusions. Final appeals were rejected and the governor declined to intervene.

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