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News Coverage From Ohio

By Steve Hall

"Governor delays execution after suitable vein can't be found," is the title of the AP report written by Stephen Majors, via the Chillicothe Gazette. After his lethal injection was delayed for hours because of his own attorney's appeal request, an Ohio inmate condemned for the 1984 rape and slaying of a teen girl tried to help hasten his own death as his executioners had trouble finding usable veins. Romell Broom, 35, turned onto his side, slid rubber tubing up his left arm and moved the arm up and down while flexing and opening his fingers. The execution team accessed a vein, but it collapsed when technicians tried to insert saline fluid, bringing Broom to tears. Prisons director Terry Collins decided after a two-hour effort using Brooms arms and legs that the team had had enough...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).