It's neither Robert Collier's execution nor his crime — he landed on Indiana's death row for the 1914 shooting of an Evansville police officer — that Latonya Collier wants to share and celebrate.

The once-prolific killing machine is the most tangible connection yet to Collier's great-great-grandfather, Robert Collier. A century earlier, shortly after midnight on Oct. 16, 1914, Robert ...