Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outside the Indiana State Prison on Monday, May 19, 2025, in Michigan City. Media were not permitted to witness death row inmate ...

Indiana's Supreme Court set a May 20 execution date for convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers) Indiana Supreme Court justices on Tuesday set a May 20 execution date for ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WISH) — Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie, convicted of killing a Beech Grove police officer nearly 25 years ago, had one hour to make his case that the state should spare his ...

A murderer who shot a police officer was killed on death row on Tuesday - after the victim's family insisted "it's time" for the sentence. Benjamin Ritchie's lawyer described the moment the ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed remorse and shed tears as he pleaded this week for the state’s parole board to spare his life. Ritchie faces a May 20 execution date for the 2000 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Braun rejected a clemency plea from Benjamin Ritchie Wednesday, one day after the Indiana Parole Board recommended that the death row inmate’s May 20 execution proceed as ...

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, according to Department of Correction officials. The ...

Lawyers for Benjamin Ritchie contend that the death row inmate has long suffered from fetal alcohol exposure, which they say should disqualify him from capital punishment. (Photo provided by Benjamin ...

Death Penalty Action, a nonprofit that advocates against executions, encouraged protestors to ring the “Delaware Bell” as a sign of their opposition to the death penalty while gathered outside the ...

MICHIGAN CITY — Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, according to Department of Correction ...