A man on Indiana's death row for killing a Beech Grove police officer is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene just weeks before his scheduled execution. Lawyers for Benjamin Ritchie petitioned the high court to step in after the Indiana Supreme Court ordered him executed May 20. In the filing, his team cited a "legal error" and said the court failed to take into account Ritchie's ineffective lawyers at trial and in other post-conviction matters. His attorneys say past counsel failed to investigate evidence related to brain damage from Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, with which Ritchie has been diagnosed. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/benjamin-ritchie-indiana-death-row-execution-officer-bill-toney-beech-grove-supreme-court-appeal/531-9ebc8e64-40b8-41f3-b246-8a79677513f3