The State of Indiana executed a 45-year-old man on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a police officer, making him the 17th person to have their death sentence carried out in the United States this year.

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.

The Beech Grove Police Department had never seen an officer killed by gunfire before the year 2000, when a chase turned deadly for Officer Bill Toney.

Preview capsule on the Indiana-New York Eastern Conference finals series that starts Wednesday: No. 4 Indiana Pacers (50-32, 8-2) vs. No. 3 New York Knicks (51-31, 8-4) Season series: Knicks, 2-1. Schedule: Game 1 at New York on Wednesday,

The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks are set to face off in the playoffs for the second consecutive season - a decades-old rivalry renewed in the digital age. The Pacers took last year's contest, but the Knicks are trotting out a new-look team and come into this year's series fully healthy,