(Michigan City, IN) - Indiana’s first state execution in 15 years happened early Wednesday morning in Michigan City.

State Prison officials said Joseph Corcoran was pronounced dead at 12:44 A.M. He was executed by lethal injection for the 1997 killings of his brother and three other men in Fort Wayne. He has been on death row at Indiana State Prison on Michigan City’s west side since his conviction.

According to the Indiana Department of Correction, Corcoran's last words were, "let's get this over with."

Corcoran’s lawyers appealed his death sentence multiple times, even going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.