Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, marking the state’s second execution of 2025 and the third since resuming the death penalty after more than a decade-long hiatus.

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

Two days after a prayer vigil for detained migrants outside the Miami Correctional Facility, the prison received its first detainees.

According to DOC officials, Ward's last meal was from Texas Corral and consisted of the following: One hamburger, one steak melt, one order of French fries, one baked potato with butter, one order of twelve fried shrimp, one sweet potato, one order of chicken alfredo, and one order of breadsticks.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl is set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year.

Ward was executed by injection in the early morning hours of Oct. 10, 2025. ——- Original story MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — At 12:01 a.m. CDT Friday, Indiana Department of Correction