Ritchie, 45, was the second person put to death in Indiana since 2009, following a 15-year hiatus due to the state’s ...

Nearly 25 years after a police officer was shot and killed during a chase, the state of Indiana carried out the execution of the man convicted of the crime early Tuesday at Indiana State Prison.

Indiana officials have executed a man convicted in the 2000 killing of a police officer. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — An ...

A death row inmate who was convicted in the killing of an Indiana police officer in 2000 was executed on Tuesday morning.

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison ...

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

Nearly 25 years after Beech Grove police officer William Toney's killing, Indiana is hours away from carrying out Ritchie’s death sentence.

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer ...