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Saftlad · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: OOOPPPS!

Romell Broom's execution was delayed when officials couldn't find a vein for the lethal injection (AP)The execution of a US inmate has been delayed by a week after officials could not find a usable vein during an attempt to give him a lethal injection.
A death penalty expert has said legal challenges could delay the Ohio inmate's return to the death chamber further.
Governor Ted Strickland issued a one-week reprieve to Romell Broom, 53, who spent more than two hours awaiting execution as technicians searched for a vein strong enough to deliver the three-drug lethal injection.
Richard Dieter, director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, said he knows of only one inmate who was subjected to more than one execution. Willie Francis did not die after being electrocuted in Louisiana in 1964 and spent almost a further year on death row.

Dieter said: "I think this is going to be challenged, whether under our standards of decency subjecting someone to multiple executions is cruel and unusual ... whether this is in effect experimenting on human beings, whether or not they're sure what works in Ohio," he said.
Broom was sentenced to death for the rape and killing of a 14-year-old Tryna Middleton after he abducted her in Cleveland in September 1984.
The execution team had started working on Broom in a holding cell and after about an hour, Broom tried to help them by turning on his side, sliding tubing up his arm and flexing his hand.
The team was able to access a vein, but it collapsed when technicians tried to insert saline fluid. Broom covered his face with both hands, his torso heaved and his feet shook. He wiped his eyes and brow.
The team tried to insert shunts through veins in Broom's legs, causing him to appear to grimace. A member of the execution team patted him on the back.
Prisons director Terry Collins said the execution team eventually told him they didn't believe Broom's veins would hold if the execution reached the point when the lethal drugs would be administered.

Lady Rachel · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:

what a terrible shame for him to have suffered for a while

(sarcastic)