FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – Last year, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and then Gov. Eric Holcomb announced they were seeking to resume executions after a 15-year hiatus.
BACKGROUND: Joseph Corcoran, 49, executed for 1997 quadruple murder | Man executed for the 2000 killing of a police officer in Indiana’s second execution in 15 years
They began in December with Joseph Corcoran, a Fort Wayne man convicted of killing four men in 1997. Benjamin Ritchie, who fatally shot a Beech Grove police officer in 2002, was next when he was put to death in May…