Man executed for the 2000 killing of a police officer in Indiana’s second execution in 15 years

Michigan, Indiana – A man from Indiana convicted in the deadly shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed on Tuesday due to the deadly injection of the second state execution in 15 years.

Benjamin Ricci, 45, was in the death row in Indiana since 2002, when he was convicted of killing a Beach Group Bill Tony while chasing a walk.

Richie was executed in Indiana prison in Michigan, according to Indiana Ministry of Reform officials. IDOC said in a statement that the operation started shortly after midnight, and Richie’s death was announced at 12:46 am

Richie’s last meal was from the Olive Park and expressed her love, support and peace for his friends and family, according to the statement.

Under the state law, five witnesses were allowed to execute, whose lawyer Steve Shot, who told the correspondents that he had a limited vision of this process.

“I couldn’t see his face. He was lying at that time,” Shot said. “Sit, lift, decline mode.”

This operation was carried out hours after the US Supreme Court refused to take the case, which led to the exhaustion of all legal options for Riche to fight the death penalty.

Dozens of people, both of whom were defending a penalty kick and Tony supporters, stood out of prison until early on Tuesday.

Indiana resumed Executions In December, after a year, due to the scarcity of deadly drugs throughout the country. Prison officials presented pictures of the death room before The execution of Joseph KurkuranShow an area similar to the operating room with fluorine lighting and a neighboring watch room. They have been offered a few other details since then.

Among 27 states with death penalty laws, Indiana is one of the two To prevent media witnesses. The other, Wyoming, conducted one execution in the last half of the century.

Associated Press and other media organizations Federal lawsuit filed In Indiana, which is seeking to reach the media, but a federal judge denied a preliminary order last week that would allow reporters to watch the execution of Richie and the future. The judge found that preventing the media does not violate the first amendment and does not reinforce the media for unequal treatment.

Execution in Indiana Of the 12 courses in eight states this year. Richie and two others will be executed in Texas and Tennessee this week.

The 2000 deadly shooting for a police officer

Richie was twenty years old when he and another car stole in Beach Bustan, near Indianapolis. Then Tony was shot while chasing the foot, killing him.

At the time, Richie was under observation of the conviction of the robbery in 1998.

Tony, 31, worked in the Beach Group Police Department for two years. The married father of two children was the first officer in the small administration who was killed in the duty to put duty.

Relatives spoke in a hearing last week to support death.

“It is time. We are all tired,” said De de Horin, who was Tony’s wife. “It is time for this chapter of my story, our story, to be closed. It is time for us to remember Bill, and to remember Bill’s life, not his death.”

Appeal of the death penalty

Richie’s lawyers fought the death penalty, on the pretext that his legal lawyer in the trial was ineffective because his lawyer failed to completely investigate evidence of alcohol spectrum disorders in the fetus and exposure to childhood leadership.

Current defense attorneys say that Richie has suffered from “severe damage to the brain” because his mother misused alcohol and drugs during pregnancy, and struggled with decisions. He was also diagnosed with a bipolar disorder in 2005.

Disabilities defenders argued that Richie’s damage to the brain should have been excluded from the death penalty.

“This is the same person who committed this crime” as a waste of foolishness, meaningless, painful for time and money. “

Prosecutor Todd Rockita said the execution was “Tony’s sacrifice for society.”

Republican ruler Mike Brown refused to offer Ricci last week without explanation.

Indiana’s Supreme Court rejected a request to be suspended. Richie’s lawyers stabbed this decision in the Federal Court, which was rejected by the judge. The Court of Appeal in the seventh American district sided with the Court of First Instance on Sunday.

When the sun sank on Monday, Reverend Richard Holly, a Catholic priest, recited from the pink with about 20 people in a car park in prison.

“We do not have to continue taking one life to achieve justice to take another,” he said.

Dozens also appeared to honor Tony’s memory.

“I support the death penalty in some cases, and this is one of them,” said Mark Hamer, the Indianapolis area officer.

Unfortunately expressing and waiting for death

Lawyers said that Richie had changed in more than two decades of bars and showed remorse.

In court when he was a young man, Richie smiled in Horin and laughed when the verdict was read.

He told the Conditional Release Council that he had regretted his actions, especially how he acted with Tony’s widow.

“I hope to return to this day in court, because the wife of that man deserves to say everything she needs to tell me, and that this evil child should have kept his mouth closed and allowed her to say what she needs to say.”

Richie, who was also a father, spent his last days on visits of friends and family.

“I have destroyed my life and the lives of others, and I am very sorry for that tonight,” he told the Conditional Release Council earlier this month. “You cannot restore what you did.”