An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002,

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, according to Department of Correction officials.

A death row inmate who was convicted in the killing of an Indiana police officer in 2000 was executed on Tuesday morning.