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Ohio stay – Broom

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

NYT reports that An Ohio prisoner whose execution was halted after two hours on Tuesday because technicians were unable to find a usable vein that could be injected with lethal drugs won a stay Friday against another attempt to put him to death next week. The stay, issued by Judge Gregory L. Frost of the Federal District Court in Columbus, expires on Sept. 28. A hearing on a further stay has been scheduled for that day, but the one that Judge Frost granted Friday could mean a substantial delay at the very least. Defense lawyers and the office of Gov. Ted Strickland said Ohio required that a new execution date be approved by the State Supreme Court once a stay of execution is issued, whether by the state courts or the federal. That process, said lawyers for the condemned prisoner, Romell Broom, 53, is likely to take months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).