The majority of the state’s highest court said attorneys have not presented new evidence that would challenge a two-decade old competency finding, but rather confirmed his condition is the same. They also referred to an affidavit from Joseph, who asked to stop future appeals.

Joseph Corcoran is scheduled to be given a lethal dose of pentobarbital before sunrise on Wednesday. If he is executed this week, it will be the first state-level execution in Indiana in more than 15 years.

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With their recent motion, Joseph’s attorneys are asking for the Indiana Supreme Court to stay his execution so they can present a claim based on a precedent set in a landmark Supreme Court case, Ford v. Wainwright, that prohibited the execution of prisoners who are insane.

With less than 20 days between now and when Joseph is scheduled to die from a lethal injection, his attorneys argue killing him would violate the 8th Amendment’s protections from cruel and unusual punishment. They say his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia should spare his life.

A group of local residents gathered at the Allen County Courthouse Saturday afternoon to protest the execution of Joseph Corcoran, a Fort Wayne man convicted of killing four men in 1997. He was sentenced to death in 1999. #deathpenalty #desthsentence #execution #fortwayne