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Lethal Injection Problem in Ohio

By Steve Hall

"Lawyer: Ohio execution on hold after vein troubles," is the latest AP report via Google News.Executioners struggled to find suitable veins to put a condemned inmate to death Tuesday in a prison scene reminiscent of the problems that delayed executions in 2006 and 2007 and led to changes in Ohio's lethal injection process. The team of prison volunteers was having trouble inserting IVs into the arms of 53-year-old Romell Broom, who entered the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shortly before 2 p.m., said Tim Sweeney, one of Broom's attorneys. He lost a last-minute appeal earlier in the day, delaying the execution originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Messages were left for prison officials in Lucasville and for the Ohio Attorney General's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).