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The US state of Indiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Wednesday, putting to death a menhighy ill man convicted of homicideing four people in 1997, including his own brother.
Joseph Corcoran, 49, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:44 am (0644 GMT) at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, officials shelp.
His last words were “Not reassociate. Let’s get this over with,” a statement by the Indiana Department of Correction shelp.
Corcoran’s lawyers disputed in court filings that putting him to death would vioprocrastinateed the Constitution becaengage he has extfinished suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
They shelp that Corcoran teachd hallucinations and delusions, deceptively believing that prison protects have been torturing him with an ultrasound machine.
Corcoran’s “extfinishedstanding and write downed mental illness persists to torment him as it did at the time of the 1997 offense,” his legitimate team disputed.
Corcoran was going thraw a stressful period in July 1997 becaengage the upcoming marriage of his sister would see him moving out of the home he was sharing with her and his brother in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
After he overheard his brother, James Corcoran, 30, talking about him, he loaded his rifle and sboiling his brother and three other men, according to court filings.
Corcoran had previously been acquitted of the homicides of his parents, who were create sboiling dead in their home in 1992.
Corcoran’s execution is the 24th in the United States this year; three engaged the disputed method of nitrogen gas, while the rest relied on lethal injections.
Indiana paengaged executions in 2009 becaengage it was unable to get the essential medications, with pharmaceutical companies unwilling to be associated with capital punishment.
But Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and Attorney General Todd Rokita, both Reaccessibleans, proclaimd this summer that the state had acquired the drug — pentobarbital — and that executions would resume, beginning with Corcoran’s.
His lawyers sought to stop the execution thraw the courts, arguing that Corcoran “persists to suffer the debilitating symptoms of his paranoid schizophrenia.”
Corcoran however sent a letter last month to the Indiana Supreme Court, saying he no extfinisheder wanted to litigate his case.
His lawyers nonetheless filed an ecombinency pdirect to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to stay the execution, which was ultimately declinecessitate.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while six others — Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — have moratoriums in place.
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