Michigan, Indiana – Indiana is a man He is scheduled to be convicted of the killing of a police officer in 2000 to receive a fatal injection early on Tuesday in the second death of the state for 15 years.
Benjamin Richie, 45, was in the death row for more than 20 years after being convicted of the deadly shooting of the Beach Group Bill Tony police officer while chasing the foot.
Unless there is a lawsuit at the last minute, Ricci is scheduled to be executed “an hour before sunrise” in Indiana prison in the city of Michigan, according to state officials.
Indiana resumed Executions In December, after a year stopping due to the scarcity of deadly injection drugs at the country level. Prison officials presented pictures of the death room before The execution of Joseph KurkuranShow a space -like area similar to the sporadic operating room with Gurney, fluorescent lighting, ground drainage, and a neighboring watch room. They have provided a few other details about the operation, including the time of executions.
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. The Associated Press and other media organizations Federal lawsuit filed In Indiana she seeks to reach the media.
The execution on Tuesday in Indiana within 12 established 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 four shots fired at Tony while chasing the foot, killing him.
At that 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. He was the first police administration officer in about 30 officers who were killed by shooting in the lines of duty. A community of 14,000 people gave the father of a married father as a person who was attending to help others.
When Tony, “each of us was involved, including Bell, said something that they will never return,” said Police Chief Vice President Tom Horn, who worked with him.
Relatives spoke in a hearing last week, and we urged to move forward.
“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.
Current defense attorneys say that Richie has suffered from “severe damage to the brain” because his mother misused alcohol and drugs during pregnancy, and I was taking decisions. He was also diagnosed with a bipolar disorder in 2005.
“It is finally to get some confrontation skills. He is a different man,” said defense lawyer, Stephen Shot.
Republican ruler Mike Brown rejected a quarter -Richie offer last week, as well as the conditional release council. Brown did not explain his decision, but the members of the Board of Directors said that the Richie case did not fulfill a bar to transfer a penalty and withdraw dozens of violations during the Richie prison period, including the threat of others with violence.
Indiana’s Supreme Court rejected the request to stop the implementation, but two judges of the judges indicated that the jury had not obtained accurate information about Richie’s brain damage.
Richie’s lawyers challenge this decision in the Federal Court and also submitted a petition to the US Supreme Court.
Disability rights defenders say that Richie’s damage to the brain should exclude him from the death penalty.
Dr. Megan Carter, who also witnessed the conditional release council, said in a statement that “Richie’s ability” to estimate the involvement of his behavior “was” weak at the time of his crime. “
Unfortunately expressing and waiting for death
Lawyers say Richie has changed over more than two decades behind 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 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.” “This was her right. This was his family’s right.”
Richie spent his last days getting visits from friends and family. Under the state law, up to five witnesses was allowed to execute, which will include lawyers and friends.
“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.”
