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Also From Ohio

By Steve Hall

A federal district judge in Ohio is holding a hearing today on the botched execution attempt of Romell Brown in September. "Ohio killer asks judge to stop 2nd execution try," is the title of the AP report.A day after Ohio became the first state in the country to use a single drug in a lethal injection, the condemned killer whose botched September execution prompted the change from a three-drug method is returning to court to argue against another attempt to put him to death.A federal judge said he'd start hearing arguments Wednesday on the case of inmate Romell (roh-MEL') Broom, who was sentenced to die for raping and killing a teenage girl.The state bungled Broom's Sept. 15 execution when it couldn't find a usable vein for injection and wants to try again...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).