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Indianapolis (desire) – the inmate Benjamin Ritchie in the death point has submitted a new lawsuit against the leaders of the State prison of Indiana and enables him to have a spiritual consultant during his execution.

After the submission, Ritchie tries “to have his spiritual advisor in the facility chamber, with him and at the time of his execution, to pray with Mr. Ritchie, to confess to administer holy communion and put his hands.”

Ritchie is said to die from fatal injection before sunrise on May 20. Spiritual advisors must leave the facility chamber last evening at 10 p.m., according to the registration.

He also searches for a execution stay until it has the lawsuit.

Ritchie was convicted for the first time in 2002 for shooting and killing Beech Grove police officers Bill Toney in 2000. This week, the Republican governor Mike Braun announced that he would follow the recommendation of the Chode Board of the Indiana Board to refuse Ritchie's application for mercy.

His last chance of avoiding the death penalty is probably the Supreme Court of the United States, which Ritchie maintained for his execution.

If the long-shot case is successful-the Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions every year, while they only listen to oral arguments in about 80-Ritchie's case could ultimately change the law of Indiana.

“The law is on our side, we really believe that,” said the deputy public defender Mark Koselke in a recent interview to News 8.

Ritchies representation has argued that his process lawyer was ineffective because they did not examine the full effects of a fetal alcohol spectrum that is best known in the medical field as a FASD.

The state disagrees and indicated the drinking of his mother during her pregnancy during her pregnancy more than 20 years ago.

Tyler Banks of the Attorney General of Indiana recently said in a hearing of grace: “His process lawyer could not have been ineffective because he was not a diagnosis that did not exist at this point.”

The case of the Supreme Court does not evaluate whether Ritchie had brain damage through FASD or whether he had an effective lawyer, but that the current evaluation of Indiana does not correspond to federal standards to ineffective lawyers.

“You actually have to check the lawyer's performance nationwide. You have to check whether a mistake has been made,” said Koselke. “But on our level in front of the dishes of Indiana, they only check whether someone was in the courtroom with the accused.”

If the Supreme Court remains the execution, there should be a hearing. That would at least be delayed, but not necessarily stop ritchies.

If the execution takes place as planned, Ritchie will be the second inmate Indiana, which was executed in 15 years after the execution of Joseph Corcoran in December.