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Cleveland Plain Dealer on the Ohio Botch

By Steve Hall

"Ohio's latest botched execution is another reminder of why the death penalty should be abolished," is the title of the editorial in today's paper. Even people who support capital punishment should have been horrified by what took place last Tuesday on death row at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. For more than two hours, prison personnel poked needles into convicted murderer Romell Broom, trying unsuccessfully to find a vein into which they could inject a dose of lethal drugs. Finally, after a reported 18 needle jabs, corrections officials sent word of their failures to Gov. Ted Strickland, who halted the execution. Depending on how the courts, the governor and prison officials decide to proceed, another attempt to make Broom pay with his life for killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton of East Cleveland could still come...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).