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Ohio Lethal Injection Hearing Reset for November 30

By Steve Hall

"Execution delayed temporarily," is the title of the Cleveland Plain Dealer report. A federal judge extended Romell Broom's life at least until Nov. 30. On Tuesday, the day the state had planned a second attempt to execute him, federal Judge Gregory L. Frost granted a temporary restraining order delaying Broom's execution until after a Nov. 30 hearing in the U.S. District Court in Columbus. The state set out to execute Broom on Sept. 15. But after trying for two hours to find a vein for delivering the lethal injection, Gov. Ted Strickland temporarily delayed the execution of the 53-year-old man convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton. Broom's lawyers are arguing that the ordeal left their client too traumatized for a second attempt and that the state does not have the right to try again...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).