World Prison NewsPost info (IF it doesn't belong in another PTO forum) about the prison system, prisoner support, criminal justice, etc., that you learn firsthand, through the media, from an inmate, or any other source. News can be local, state, Federal, or int'l.
Is subjecting an inmate to a failed execution cruel and unusual punishment?
By Krista Gesaman | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 21, 2009
Can a vein save a convicted killer? It the case of Romell Broom—it might. Broom was sentenced to death for raping and murdering 14-year-old Tryna Middleton on Sept. 21, 1984. Broom isn't supposed to be alive to witness the 25th anniversary of Middleton's death—but he is. Last Tuesday, the execution team at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility spent several hours trying unsuccessfully to find a viable vein for a lethal injection. Now, Ohio is faced with the difficult task of determining whether it can try to execute Broom a second time, after it botched the first attempt.
i live 20 minutes from that prison, and it was in our local papers. it was horrible, the way they kept trying and trying to get a vein, from the way the article read.
although, i think what he did to get in prison was way more horrible.
sad, that two people will be losing thier lives in the end result of that.
i think they will still execute him though. my ex boyfriends dad works at lucasville prison and has for over 20 years and just talked to him recently, he told me they still plan to execute him.
Botched execution may save death row inmate's life
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