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More on Ohio's execution troubles and what could happen next

By Douglas A. Berman

This new article at CNN now has a pretty full report on what happened today in Ohio when the state sought to execute a condemned murderer: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday gave a death-row inmate a one-week reprieve after authorities tried for hours to find a vein to administer his lethal injection. "Difficulties in administering the execution protocol necessitate a temporary reprieve," said Strickland's Warrant of Reprieve, filed in court Tuesday afternoon in the case of inmate Romell Broom. Broom's defense attorney, Tim Sweeney, wrote Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer on Tuesday that, "I am advised by my co-counsel, Adele Shank, who is at the prison in Lucasville, that the execution team has been attempting since approximately 1 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).