Ward Execution on Hold
By: Michael C. Fehn
Updated: December 5, 2012
Ward is on death row for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne at her home in Dale, IN.
Ward was scheduled to die early next Tuesday morning, but we're told after he filed an appeal on Monday, an automatic stay was granted.
Police say Ward broke into Payne's Spencer County home, sexually assaulted the teen, then killed her.

