'Let's get this over with': Joseph Corcoran becomes Indiana's first execution in 15 years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : He committed the homicides with a semi-automatic rifle, and at the home he lived in with his older sister and brother in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Corcoran, who was 22 at the time, killed his brother, 30-year-old James Corcoran; his sister's fiancé, 32-year-old Robert Scott Turner; and their two friends, 30-year-old Timothy Bricker and 30-year-old Douglas Stillwell.Before Corcoran's execution, his attorneys filed a request at the Indiana Supreme Court asking them to consider his client's competency due to his paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis in 1999.
35% : The state of Indiana resumed executions after 15 yearsAn inmate has not been executed in Indiana since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of his estranged wife, her sister and her brother-in-law.
34% : He's ruined my life.

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