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Specifics and predictions concerns stay of Ohio's effort to re-execute Broom

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, headlined "Inmate's execution delayed for 10 days," provides more of the details and debate surrounding Ohio's efforts to try to execution again Romell Broom after its botched first attempt: A second attempt to execute condemned killer Romell Broom, who says he endured "torture" and cried in pain during the first aborted try, was delayed yesterday under an agreement between Broom's attorneys and the state.... The order expires at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 28. U.S. District Judge Gregory L. Frost has set a hearing for 9 a.m. that day to consider a request by Broom's attorneys for a preliminary injunction against the execution. Broom attorney Timothy Sweeney of Cleveland said yesterday that he doesn't expect the execution will go forward "any time in the near future...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 19, 2009 (boomark / email).