The city requested on Oct. 14 that the state's highest court decide on the dispute over the Providence Mill Dam where a 14-year-old drowned last year.
Roy Lee Ward, 53, was scheduled to be put to death before sunrise at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
Benjamin Ritchie died by lethal injection early Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
Benjamin Ritchie, 45, has been on death row for more than 20 years after being convicted in the fatal shooting of Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney during a foot chase.
Richard Allen was convicted in November in the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German.
Indiana has carried out its first execution in 15 years by putting to death a man convicted of killing four people decades ago, including his brother and his sister’s fiancé.
Joseph Corcoran has been on Indiana's death row since his 1999 conviction in the fatal shootings.
Fifty-two-year-old Richard Allen is charged in the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. He was arrested in October 2022.
The case against 52-year-old Richard Allen has long haunted the girls’ hometown of Delphi and spurred endless online speculation.
Richard Allen, 52, is charged with two counts of murder and two counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping in the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German.