The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed – a killer in a case with ties to Augusta – has selected lethal ...

Like Gilmore and Gardner, Sigmon also chose to be shot. He preferred it to execution by lethal injection or the electric chair, the other methods authorized by law in the Palmetto State.

Here's a look at the history behind the death penalty method. The earliest recorded execution by shooting came in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608. Capt. George Kendall came to be suspected of mutiny ...

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

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

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

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 ...

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

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

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

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on ...