Indiana to carry out first state execution in 15 years

A man who killed four people including his brother in 1997 will be put to death in Indiana – the state’s first execution in 15 years.

Joseph Corcoran, 49, was on death row since his 1999 conviction and, despite late appeals on the grounds that he was severely mentally ill, is set to be executed Wednesday by lethal injection at Indiana State Prison. 

Corcoran fatally shot his brother James Corcoran, 30, his sister's fiancé Robert Scott Turner, 32, and two other 30-year-old men, Timothy G.