Indiana plans to carry out its first execution since 2009 before sunrise Wednesday, with much of the process concealed from the public.
Under state law, no media witnesses will be allowed to view the execution of Joseph Corcoran, 49, who is set to die by lethal injection for the 1997 killings of his brother and three other men, one of whom was the fiancé of Corcoran’s sister.
The condemned man’s legal team continued Tuesday to petition the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to halt the execution after a federal appeals court on Monday sided with a federal judge who ruled that he is competent to be executed…