Governor Eric Holcomb and Attorney General Todd Rokita are seeking the resumption of executions in Indiana prisons — starting with a convicted murderer responsible for the deaths of four people.
Holcomb says that after years of effort, the Indiana Department of Correction has acquired a drug — pentobarbital – which can be used to carry out executions.
Joseph Corcoran was found guilty of the 1997 murders of four people.
He exhausted his appeals in 2016 and has been awaiting execution.
Indiana’s pause in executions was blamed on the unavailability of execution drugs.
