LA PORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - Roy Ward is executed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City and is pronounced dead around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 10.

Ward received a lethal injection for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.

In 2001, Ward pretended that he was looking for a lost dog.

Police say he forced himself inside, cut the phone lines, and attacked a frantically screaming Stacy with a knife and dumbbell.

Ward’s attorneys spent the next two decades seeking appeals, until Indiana Governor Mike Braun, signed off on the execution, that was carried.

Governor Braun issued a statement, saying, “Roy Lee Ward’s case has been heard and reviewed numerous times by both state and federal courts, including the Indiana Supreme Court, since his conviction in 2002. These reviews have ne

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