The Indiana Supreme Court has set an execution date for Roy Lee Ward, convicted of raping and murdering Stacy Payne in 2001.

Questions remain about whether the state will have access to the execution drugs needed for an Oct. 10 execution date.

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

Indiana spent $1.175 million in taxpayer funds to purchase four doses of execution drugs, with two doses expiring and two being used in December and May respectively. Gov. Braun urges state lawmakers ...

The Indiana Supreme Court has set a tentative execution date for Roy Lee Ward, who murdered Spencer County teenager Stacy ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, Indiana teenager in 2001.

The Indiana Supreme Court has set Oct. 10 as the tentative date for the state to end the life of a 52-year-old man who raped ...

Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

Ward’s execution, if approved, would be the third in Indiana since December 2024, following a 15‑year hiatus. Joseph Corcoran was executed by lethal injection in December under former Gov. Eric ...

Indiana is one of five states where the committee has established a Local Legal Initiative, a six-year-old program that is ...

A tentative execution date has been set for a Spencer County man convicted of raping and killing a 15-year-old girl in 2001. According to a five-page order obtained by ...