Joseph Corcoran Executed
Source: Indiana State Prison / other
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Joseph Corcoran was executed early Wednesday morning.
His execution was carried out despite several attempts by advocates for him 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 12:00 a.m. CST (1:00 a.m. EST) on Wednesday, Dec. 18, at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST (1:44 a.m. EST).
His last words were: “Not really. Let’s get this over with.”
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.
