The Indiana Supreme Court has set an execution date for the state for the first time in 15 years.
The judge on Wednesday ordered Joseph Corcoran executed before sunrise on Dec. 18. WXIN-TV reported.
Indiana's last execution was in 2009, when Matthew Wrinkles was executed for the murders of his wife, her brother and sister-in-law, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The years-long hiatus was allegedly due to a lack of availability of the drugs used in the lethal injections.
Gov. Eric Holcomb in June asked the Supreme Court to set a date for Corcoran's execution, saying the state Department of Corrections had obtained pentobarbital, a sedative used in executions in several states.
Corcoran, 49, was convicted of murdering his brother, James Corcoran, 30-year-old Douglas A. Stillwell, 32-year-old Robert Scott Turner and 30-year-old Timothy Bricker in July 1997.
Corcoran has been on death row since 1999.
He finished his appeals in 2016.
He had argued that the execution was unconstitutional because he suffered from a mental illness and the state had not disclosed its execution procedures.
The first federal execution in 17 years at the time took place in 2020 at a federal prison in Indiana.
