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Romell Broom's Ohio Hearing

By Steve Hall

Andrew Welsh-Huggins covered yesterday's heaing and filed, "Judge: Ohio inmate's execution appeal has limits," for AP, via Google News.An Ohio inmate fighting the state's second attempt to execute him will be limited to a simple argument, a federal judge said Wednesday: Does the state, having failed once, have the legal right to try again? Beyond that, a recent court ruling likely limits how much condemned inmate Romell Broom could say about pain he might suffer, said U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that death row inmate Kenneth Biros hadn't presented evidence that the state's new backup execution method could cause severe pain in violation of the U.S. Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).