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

A man has died and a woman was hurt after a shooting involving police in Middletown.It happened around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on Garden Avenue when a special operations unit was executing a search warrant ...

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

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

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

This is one of the clearest examples of the potential danger of a defendant to others that I have ever seen,” judge says.

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7 ... Weiss was present at Mahdi's execution on April 11. He said when the curtain to the death chamber was pulled back, Mahdi was sitting down and ...

Claudia Banton, 46, had attended the same funeral as victim Delia Johnson a day before the 2021 killing and had even chatted ...

The solicitor who sought the death penalty for Mikal Mahdi responded Thursday to calls to investigate his execution.

The man shot and killed Tuesday by Middletown police during the execution of a search warrant has been identified. It happened around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on Garden Avenue when a special operations unit ...