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The Indiana Parole Board denied Ritchie’s clemency plea on May 14 to have his sentence commuted to life without parole, WISH-TV reported. The same day, Governor Mike Braun approved the execution.
A death row inmate who was convicted in the killing of an Indiana police officer in 2000 was executed on Tuesday morning.
Beech Grove officials offered a special tribute to fallen Officer Bill Toney ahead of the scheduled execution of his convicted killer.
Ofc. Bill Toney was shot and killed on Sept. 29, 2000, while chasing down suspects who had run from a stolen van. Benjamin Ritchie was one of those suspects. He shot Toney five times, killing the 31-year-old husband and father of two daughters.