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

The Indiana Parole Board denied Ritchie’s clemency plea on May 14 to have his sentence commuted to life without parole, ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the ...

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

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

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

The last words and final meal of man executed over killing of an Indiana police officer - Benjamin Ritchie put to death by ...

For a handful of years, Bill Toney's life was like the lyrics of a Kenny Chesney song he always listened to with his wife. "Life is good, the grass is green, the good lord smilin' on you and me.

Among 27 states with death penalty laws, Indiana is one of two that bars media witnesses. The other, Wyoming, has conducted ...