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By Steve Hall

"Death Row: The Cruel and Unusual Wait," is the title of Richard Elkind's essay for the OpEd column Barely Legal in the Cornell Daily Sun.On Tuesday, Sep. 15, the state of Ohio was set to execute Rommell Broom, a man convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago. After two hours of poking and prodding, however, the technicians were unable to find a suitable vein where they could administer the lethal injection. Regardless of the cause, the end result was that the execution attempt failed and Broom walked out of the chamber under his own power, still breathing the same oxygen as the rest of us, his execution postponed by one week.Unsurprisingly, Broom?s attorneys immediately responded seeking to cancel or at least postpone this execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).