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.

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing ...

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

Benjamin Ritchie, a man convicted of killing Beech Grove police officer William Toney in September 2000, is slated to be executed by the State of Indiana early Tuesday.

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.