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Romell Broom - Botched Execution Survivor

By Steve Hall

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled on Broom's challenge to his botched execution attempt.  The AP report is, "Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.  It's via the Washington Post. The only inmate in modern history to survive an execution attempt must stay on death row, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that leaves the man's fate up to the federal courts. In a separate ruling, the court also determined that Ohio law doesn't allow a constitutional challenge of lethal injection. Romell Broom's execution last year was stopped by Gov. Ted Strickland after an execution team tried for two hours to find a suitable vein. Broom has said he was stuck with needles at least 18 times, with pain so intense that he cried and screamed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 02, 2010 (boomark / email).