CHICAGO -- An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state's third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the third time in less than a year, Indiana officials will execute a convicted murderer. This time it will be Roy Lee Ward, ...

Roy Lee Ward, the man who murdered 15-year-old Stacy Payne inside her Spencer County home in 2001, was executed just after midnight Friday.

Gov. Mike Braun followed the recommendation of the Indiana Parole Board, allowing the execution of death row inmate Roy Lee Ward to move forward, according to a short announcement Sept. 29. Ward, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Braun denied clemency to death row inmate Roy Lee Ward in an announcement early Monday morning. “After carefully reviewing the unanimous recommendation from the State Parole ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. − In the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 10, Indiana executed Roy Lee Ward via lethal injection. Ward was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of Stacy Payne, a 15-year-old ...

More than 24 years after killing Stacy Payne, Roy Lee Ward will be executed Oct. 10. The road to get there was complicated and excruciating.

“Early this morning, the execution of Roy Lee Ward was carried out, delivering accountability for the brutal rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne on April 16, 2001,” said Indiana Attorney ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Parole Board took testimony Monday regarding whether Gov. Mike Braun should grant clemency to convicted killer Roy Lee Ward, who was sentenced to death for the rape and ...