INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The family of fallen Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney called for justice and the full execution of Benjamin Ritchie’s death sentence during his final clemency hearing on Monday.
Toney’s widow, Dee Dee Toney Horen, said during an emotional testimony to the Indiana Parole Board at the Indiana Government Center, “It is time. It’s time for this chapter of my story, our story, to be closed. It’s time to remember Bill’s life, not his death. It is time.”
Ritchie is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 20. He did not attend the downtown Indianapolis hearing after speaking on his own behalf during a May 5 hearing at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City…