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

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row for over two decades after he was convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting ...

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

Indiana will execute Benjamin Ritchie early May 20, 2025 more than two decades after his murder conviction in the killing of ...

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

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

Benjamin Ritchie is scheduled to die by lethal injection nearly 25 years after he shot and killed Ofc. Bill Toney.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 killing of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection early Tuesday in the ...

The State of Indiana executed a 45-year-old man on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a police officer, making him the 17th ...

FILE - A guard stands in a tower at Indiana State Prison on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Michigan City, Ind. (AP Photo/Erin ...

Ofc. Bill Toney was shot and killed on Sept. 29, 2000, while chasing down suspects who had run from a stolen van. Benjamin ...

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.