joseph corcoran

The information was released to the Indiana Capital Chronicle amid an ongoing lawsuit over public records.

The bill, authored by state Rep. Robert Morris (R-Fort Wayne), would repeal the existing death penalty statute and commute the sentences of seven men currently on death row to life imprisonment without parole.

The Capital Chronicle was the only media present for the execution inside the Indiana State Prison.

Tahina Corcoran’s husband Joseph Corcoran is set to be executed by lethal injection before dawn Wednesday morning in Michigan City. Corcoran was sentenced to death in 1997 for shooting and killing four people inside his home.

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

Indiana criminal code permits only certain people to attend an execution. It's one of only two states that forbids media witnesses.

Gov. Eric Holcomb also speaks on whether he might intervene.

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.

Attorneys are asking a federal court to rule on whether Joseph Corcoran’s spiritual advisor can have physical contact with him during his execution next week.

Convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran told the high court justices he did not want to pursue further appeals and instead wishes to be executed on Dec. 18, as scheduled.