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

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 ...

Ritchie's is the second execution after Indiana's $900,000 purchase of pentobarbital in 2024 made the death penalty possible for the first time in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, the first man executed ...

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney during a chase on foot.

Indiana executed Benjamin Ritchie, 45, on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of Officer Bill Toney, marking the state's second execution in 15 years. Ritchie, convicted in 2002, was put to death by ...

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Indiana State Prison on Tuesday, May 20 Ritchie was convicted of fatally shooting Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney in 2000 ...

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(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — The Indiana Parole Board rejected a clemency plea from Benjamin Ritchie, recommending that Gov. Mike Braun allow the death row inmate’s May 20 execution to ...

Ritchie was sentenced to death in 2002 for the Sept. 2000 shooting death of Beech Grove Police Ofc. Bill Toney.

Dr. Megan Carter, left, addresses reporters after speaking at an Indiana Parole Board clemency hearing for Benjamin Ritchie on May 12, 2025.

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana's death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney during a chase on foot.