Death penalty USA | Death row executions 2025 | True crime — Two men executed on the same day, May 20, 2025: Benjamin Ritchie in Indiana and Matthew Lee Johnson in Texas.
On May 20, 2025, two men were executed by lethal injection within hours of each other in two different states. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was executed just after midnight at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City for the 2000 fatal shooting of Beech Grove police officer William Ronald Toney during a foot chase. His defense attorney, who witnessed the execution, reported that Ritchie lifted violently from the gurney shortly after the process began. Ritchie had been on death row since his conviction in 2002. Hours later in Texas, Matthew Lee Johnson, 50, was executed for the 2012 murder of Nancy Judith Harris, a 76-year-old convenience store employee in Garland, Texas — he doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire during a robbery. Johnson accepted responsibility for the crime but said he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Two crimes. Two states. Two executions in one day. This is the full story on Final Sentence — Documentales Pena de Muerte y Crímenes.
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