Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Indiana executed Roy Lee Ward, who was sentenced to death after being convicted of rape and murder Friday morning, shortly after midnight CDT.
Ward, 53, was convicted of the 2001 rape and murder of Stacy Payne, 15, in Spencer County, Ind, which is in the southwest corner of the state. He was executed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. It's the second execution of 2025, and the third since the state resumed the death penalty after a nearly 15-year pause.
Indiana didn't execute anyone because for years, it struggled to get the drugs for lethal injection after pharmaceutical companies refused to sell them for executions.
State officials have refused to say where it gets pentobarbital, the main drug used in lethal injections, because of a 2017 secrecy law that shields the suppliers. Lethal injection is the only method of execution allowed in Indiana.
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