Records Request Reveals Indiana Department of Corrections Spent $900,000 for Lethal Injection Drugs | Death Penalty Information Center

Records Request Reveals Indiana Department of Corrections Spent $900,000 for Lethal Injection Drugs | Death Penalty Information Center

According to pub­lic records released to the *Indiana Capital Chronicle*, the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) spent $900,000 on the drugs need­ed to car­ry out the lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tion of Joseph Corcoran in December 2024. The new­ly released record is so high­ly redact­ed that just one line of text appears: ​“IDOC shall pay the Contractor the sum of nine hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars ($900,000).” The doc­u­ment does not show how …

The Sordid, Unscientific Story Behind Lethal Injection

Texas was the first U.S. state to execute someone by lethal injection, but the idea for the novel method came from Oklahoma. Our northern neighbor was the first to adopt the plan to replace the spectacle of the electric chair with something more palatable for witnesses and the public. Texas was just the first to test it out on a person.  Since 1982, when state officials injected Charlie Brooks—convicted of murder in Fort Worth—with a lethal cock…