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No media were present when the execution took place early Tuesday morning.

The ruling rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that Corcoran is incompetent to be executed due to his mental illness. Corcoran suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

The letter, signed by 70 clergy-members and delivered to the governor's office Thursday, asks Holcomb to grant clemency to Joseph Corcoran, who is set to be executed next week in Michigan City.

The Indiana State Police have arrested a second suspect in the 2012 Lowell Badger homicide case.

Thursday that the 1.4 million-square-foot new prison pegged to cost $1.2 billion and house up to 4,200 male inmates will provide “a modern and efficient space” for both inmates and more than 900 Indiana Department of Correction staff working there.

It’s still unclear what will happen with the former Westville and Michigan City facilities once the new prison building is operational.