Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Attorneys for quadruple murderer Joseph Corcoran filed a motion on Friday to ask the Indiana Supreme Court to block his execution, which is currently scheduled for Dec.

Indiana lawmakers call for an end to the death penalty with House Bill 1030, citing concerns of wrongful convictions and execution of innocent people.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The defense team of Joseph Corcoran is attempting to stop his execution scheduled for Dec. 18 after filing motions Friday claiming his execution as unconstitutional.

When he was under psychological evaluation for the murder of his mother and father ... Attorney General Todd Rokita issued the following statement on Joseph Corcoran's execution: "Early this morning, ...

The end came with the lethal injection of Joseph Corcoran, who had been on death row since 1999 ... “This individual has been on death row since October of 2002 and exhausted all his appeals since his ...

Joseph and Olga Connell were murdered in 2013 in a shocking murder-for-hire plot. Christopher Rivers, Joseph's business partner, arranged the killing using his drug dealer, Joshua C. Bey ...

In an order dated Thursday, the court also denied petitions by Joseph Corcoran's lawyers to argue claims on whether the scheduled Dec ... rationally understanding that the State intends to execute him ...