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Failed Execution in Ohio - Condemned receives new stay

by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | December 10, 2009 at 08:14 am

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An execution in Ohio was halted, when authorities searching for a vein for two hours, were unsuccessful. Rommel Broom is the first man that walked away from an execution alive since 1946.

Lawyers had appealed for the stay in wake of the September 15th failed execution. Rommel is now considering his options

Rommel Broom was convicted and sentenced to death in 1984 for killing a 14 year old. A judge has now ordered a stay of execution for 30 days.

Judge Gregory Frost will now consider whether a second attempt to execute Broom would violate his constitutional rights.

WASHINGTON — A US man whose Ohio execution was halted after prison authorities spent two hours searching unsuccessfully for a vein has received a new injunction delaying his execution by lethal injection.

An Ohio judge granted a 30-day delay in the execution of Romell Broom, 53, who was sentenced to death some 25 years ago.

Lawyers appealed for the injunction in the wake of the failed September 15 attempt to execute Broom. Judge Gregory Frost is now considering whether a second attempt of execution would violate Broom's rights.

The decision to halt the execution made Broom, convicted in 1984 of murdering a 14-year-old, the first condemned man to leave his execution alive since 1946.

Judge Gregory Frost ruled Wednesday that "the state of Ohio, and any person acting in its behalf, is hereby stayed from implementing an order for the execution of Romell Broom" for 30 days.

Frost will now consider whether a second attempt to execute Broom would violate his constitutional rights.

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stejeb

at 20:34 on December 10th, 2009

Must have veins like my wife. I feel sorry for the staff at blood donor sessions when I watch them poking around trying to find one, one of them commented that she has threads, not veins.

Having said that, I find it strange that he could get off his sentence for constitutional rights reasons, one would think that as he murdered someone, and went through due process of law, it would be right and proper for the authorities to finish off the job.