45-Year-Old Benjamin Ritchie Faces Execution for a Chilling Crime in Indiana -- Says, "I've Ruined..."

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Indiana is one of two states that prohibit media witnesses out of 27 that have death penalty legislation.
43% : After a lapse of several years owing to the worldwide shortage of lethal injection medicines, Indiana resumed executions in December.
42% : "I've ruined my life and other people's lives, and I'm so sorry for that night," he told the parole board earlier this month.
36% : (Cover image source: Twitter) In the second execution in 15 years, an Indiana man convicted of killing a police officer in 2000 is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection early Tuesday.
36% : After being found guilty of shooting Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney to death during a foot pursuit, 45-year-old Benjamin Ritchie has been on death row for more than 20 years.

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