Indiana Executes Scumbag

At least there's still a state in the Midwest that executes their criminals. Too bad it took fifteen years:

• An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death early Wednesday, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.

  Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, the Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement. Corcoran was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, but the state agency's statement did not mention that drug. Corcoran's execution was the 24th in the U.S. this year.

Those four weren't his first victims though:

• While jailed for those killings, Corcoran reportedly bragged about fatally shooting his parents in 1992 in northern Indiana's Steuben County. He was charged in their killings but acquitted.
  

The usual bleeding hearts objected:

• Religious groups, disability rights advocates and others have opposed his execution. About a dozen people, some holding candles, held a vigil late Tuesday to pray outside the prison, which is surrounded by barbed wire fences in a residential area about 60 miles (90 kilometers) east of Chicago.

  "We can build a society without giving governmental authorities the right to execute their own citizens," said Bishop Robert McClory of the Diocese of Gary, who led the prayers.

  Other death penalty opponents also demonstrated outside the prison Tuesday night, some holding signs that read "Execution Is Not The Solution" and "Remember The Victims But Not With More Killing."

It's not a "killing" when you put down a rabid dog. It's a mercy to the dog, and society as a whole. 

It needs to return here.