Joseph Corcoran is scheduled to be executed in Indiana on 18 December 2024. He has long been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, with symptoms that include hallucinations and delusions.
International law and standards prohibit the use of the death penalty on those with mental (psychosocial disabilities) who have limited ability to defend themselves on an equal basis with others.
Indiana accounts for 20 of the USA’s 1,605 executions since 1976. There have been 23 executions in the USA this year alone. This would be Indiana’s first execution since 11 December 2009.
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb – with the assistance of Indiana’s five-member Parole Board – has the exclusive authority to commute a death sentence.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases unconditionally. Join us in calling on Govenor Holcomb to choose fairness over finality, to prevent Joseph Corcoran’s execution, and to commute his death sentence.