The execution chamber,[1] and men's death row are in Indiana State Prison.
In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, the judge decides the sentence.
[5] Indiana was one of the four states (alongside Alabama, Delaware and Florida) that had allowed a judge to override a jury's recommendation of a life sentence to the death penalty or death penalty to a life sentence.
[8] In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia held all state capital punishment sentencing statutes were unconstitutional.
As a result, all seven men on Indiana's death row at the time had their sentences reduced to life in prison.