The death of an Indiana convicted in the killing of a police officer in 2000 due to the deadly injection on Tuesday in the execution of the second state since 2009. Indiana has resumed executions in December after he had stopped for 15 years.
Benjamin Richie45 years old, he was in the death row for more than two decades after being convicted of the deadly shooting of Beach Group Bill Tony during the chase of the foot.
Richie was executed in Indiana prison in Michigan, according to the Ministry of Administration in Indiana. Idoc said in a statement online, the implementation process started shortly after midnight and his death was announced at 12:46 am
Ricci told the conditional release council earlier this month that it had changed over more than two decades behind bars. He apologized for his actions, killing the 31 -year -old married father.
“I have destroyed my life and the lives of others, and I am very sorry for that tonight,” he said. “If I can return and shake this child, because he will not listen to no one. You cannot restore what I did.”
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Indiana symbols require the implementation of ROW prisoners before sunrise a day The death penalty center (DPI), a non -profit organization that searches and collects data for the death penalty.
Indiana resumed executions after stopping due to the scarcity of fatal injection drugs that affected the reform departments at the country level. After its last implementation in 2009, the state merged a new fatal drug into its protocol to calculate the shortage, without issuing any general information about change. In 2017, the Court of Appeal in Indiana canceled the new protocol, and was sentenced that the Ministry of Corrections in the state had violated the procedures for making the rules when it made this change secretly and adopted a protocol that was not previously used in the execution room, according to the death penalty center, Indiana faced criticism for its real estate offers, which were in many of the many years that were secret in the country.
Prison officials presented pictures of the death room before The execution of Joseph Kurkuran In December. The photos showed a space -like space room with Gurney and fluorescent lighting, draining the floor and a neighboring watch room. The state provided some other details about the operation, including the time of executions.
Among 27 states with death penalty laws, Indiana is one of two media witnesses. The other, Wyoming, conducted one execution in the last half of the century. The Associated Press and other media organizations filed a federal lawsuit in Indiana seeking to reach the media.
Tuesday’s execution in Indiana out of 12 courses in eight states this year. Richie and two others will be executed in Texas and Tennessee this week.
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.
“All of us were involved, including Bill, they were stolen from them that they will never return,” said Police Deputy Chief of Police Tom Horn, who worked with him when Tony died.
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 from my story, our story, to be closed. It is time for us to remember Bill, and to remember Bill’s life, not his death.”
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 lawyers say 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.
“He finally came to get some confrontation skills,” defense lawyer Stephen Shot said.
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. “
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 bid her saying what she needs to say,” Richie said. “This was true to her. 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 was expected to include lawyers and friends.
