Up until December, Indiana hadn’t executed a death row inmate since 2009. In the span of seven months, the state has carried ...

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, according to Department of Correction officials.

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years.

Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s legal team fights to delay – or stop altogether – a pending May 20 ...

Benjamin Ritchie was sentenced to death for the killing of Beech Grove police officer Bill Toney back in 2000.

The Beech Grove Police Department had never seen an officer killed by gunfire before the year 2000, when a chase turned deadly for Officer Bill Toney.

The Indiana Parole Board did not recommend clemency for death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie, convicted of the 2000 killing of Beech Grove police officer William Toney.

Benjamin Ritchie, sentenciado a muerte en Indiana por la muerte de un policía. Foto sin fecha, difundida por el Departamento Correccional de Indiana. (Departamento Correccional de Indiana via AP) ...

Ritchie was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of Beech Grove officer William Toney. A slew of last-minute appeals were unsuccessful.

Disability rights advocates said Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie’s “profound brain damage” should spare him from execution.