45-year-old Benjamin Ritchie died after giving him an injection at night from Monday to Tuesday's local time in a state prison in Michigan City. The execution began just after midnight, and the death of the lost was found at 00.46. The Associated Press agency announced that the death penalty and supporters of a policeman killed before the summer had gathered in front of the prison.
Ritchie was convicted in 2002 for a fatal shooting of an officer. The man expressed repentance for his actions during the interrogation, which took place earlier this month, and emphasized that within 20 years behind the bars, it was changed. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to reconsider his case again. Thus, Ritchie exhausted legal possibilities on the road to avoiding the death penalty.
This is the second execution in Indiana for years
The previous execution in Indian was carried out last year. 13 people were lost in the Indian from 2009 to December 2024judgments were made by federal, not state officers. The condition could not buy preparations used in deadly injections.
As the Associated Press agency emphasized, in the USA, where numerous states exercise death sentences by giving a combination of killing measures, pharmaceutical companies have been refusing to sell their products for years for years. This forced the states, including Indiana, to search for preparations in pharmacies that are able to provide the required funds to order the recipient. Some of them use more easily available measures, which, however, – according to experts – can cause severe pain.
Indiana is one of two states that do not show the presence of the media during the death penalty. This year, 12 executions are planned in eight US states. Confusions in Texas and Tennessee are to be lost this week.
