Indiana
State update
Link to Indiana Coalition Acting to Suspend Executions
Link to Indiana Information Center on the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Link to death penalty statute
Subsection: IC 35-50-2-9
Link to execution statute
Date death penalty reenacted
May 1, 1973
Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?
Yes; also if they committed the murder by lying in wait or committed the murder by hiring another person to kill
How is the sentence determined?
Jury
Location of death row(s)
Michigan City (Women: Indianapolis)
Clemency process
Governor has authority to grant clemency with nonbinding advice of Board of Pardons and Paroles
Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)
Usually between 12:00-1:00am
Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973
2
Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973
- Larry Hicks, 1980
- Charles Smith, 1991
