MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — At 12:01 a.m. CDT, the time declared by court order to begin the execution of Roy Lee Ward, a small crowd gathered in the parking lot across the street from the Indiana State ...

News Channel 8's Jeff Patterson spoke with Claybra Selmon, Lee Roy's wife, who explains how they met and how Lee Roy was able to leave a lasting mark on the community. Witnesses who could shed light ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Warren Sapp. Derrick Brooks. John Lynch. Mike Evans. To be a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan is to cheer for and know some of the most iconic names in all of football. But all those ...

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 ...

For the third time in less than a year, Indiana officials will execute a convicted murderer. This time it will be Roy Lee Ward, the Perry County man who killed 15-year-old Heritage Hills High School ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WISH) — The state has executed death row inmate Roy Lee Ward for the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl in Spencer County. It’s the state’s third execution since resuming ...

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 ...

Roy Lee Young, 80, died Oct. 12, 2025 in Wichita. He was born July 10, 1945, in Kingman the son of Merle W. and Hilah M. Field Young. A lifetime resident of the Pretty Prairie and Kingman communities, ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. − Roy Lee Ward, the man who raped and murdered 15-year-old Stacy Payne inside her Spencer County home in 2001, was executed just after midnight Friday. Ward died at 12:33 a.m., a ...

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 ...