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, ...

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic MICHIGAN CITY — Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by ...

Beech Grove police officer William “Bill” Toney wasn’t supposed to be on the clock that Friday night in September 2000.

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

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

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 ...

The state is set to execute Benjamin Ritchie in the early morning hours of May 20, more than two decades after he was convicted of the murder of Beech Grove police officer William Toney.