Ohio inmate who survived '09 execution appeals to high court

Associated Press ^ | August 23, 2016 | Associated Press

[CorporateStepsister]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A condemned Ohio killer who survived a 2009 botched execution is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that a second attempt to put him to death would be unconstitutional.

Lawyers for death row inmate Romell Broom argue that giving the state prisons agency a second chance would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.

A divided Ohio Supreme Court rejected Broom's arguments in March. Broom's attorneys appealed that ruling earlier this month to the U.S. Supreme Court and filed notice of that appeal on Monday with the state court.

The state stopped Broom's execution after two hours when executioners failed to find a usable vein following 18 attempts to insert needles.

[Jim W N]

Since when was Snopes the last word on legality or truth? Snopes has been shown to be slanted to the Left.

[Lurker]

Bullcrap

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Its simple really, The victim was not a close family member.

[Moonman62]

Romell Broom (born June 4, 1956) is an American convicted of murder, kidnapping, and rape. He was convicted in 1984 of abducting and killing Tryna Middleton, age 14, who was walking home from a football game in East Cleveland, Ohio.

Broom also has convictions for robbery, aggravated robbery and four counts of kidnap of a male child. He was also convicted in a separate incidence of raping a female child.

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If it takes a dozen botched attempts to get it right, then he deserves it.

[Trentamj]

"Rope is simple and easy." Hanging is a great deal trickier than it looks. Get the condemned person's weight wrong, or have an idiot for a hangman, and you've got yourself a little horror show of snapping ropes, throats beings torn out, and heads popping clean off. Read up on the Nuremberg prison hangings, and you'll learn about events to make a buzzard puke. Herman Goring didn't poison himself because he was afraid to die; turns out, the hangman was an inept idiot, everyone knew it, and cyanide was a blessing.

[Jim W N]

Well, regardless, his crime was already punished twice actually. Once 2000 years ago on the body of Jesus Christ and secondly in the botched attempt to kill him. Both are punishments for his crime the second one being unjust, but it was still a punishment. A second attempt would also be unjust.

[Jim W N]

So a botched attempt at killing him isn’t punishment? Pain and suffering short of death is not punishment? What kind of mean and cruel society do we live in anyway?

[SandRat]

an armed Claymore Mine taped to his back, will, when detonated meets the requirement. It will also make it extremely difficult for anyone to pick up what’s left.

[SandRat]

an armed Claymore Mine taped to his back, will, when detonated meets the requirement. It will also make it extremely difficult for anyone to pick up what’s left.

[samtheman]

I like the idea of multiple execution attempts on the same convict. Prolongs the agony.

We need a Russian Roulette Execution system, where the convict never knows if today is the day. Let him squirm in fear multiple times before the mechanism lines up for a score.

[\/\/ayne]

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the midst of the French Revolution the revolting citizens led a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. They ask the priest if he wants to face up or down when he meets his fate.

The priest says he would like to face up so he will be looking towards heaven when he dies. They raise the blade of the guillotine and release it. It comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. The authorities take this as divine intervention and release the priest.

The drunkard comes to the guillotine next. He also decides to die face up, hoping that he will be as fortunate as the priest. They raise the blade of the guillotine and release it. It comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. Again, the authorities take this as a sign of divine intervention, and they release the drunkard as well.

Next is the engineer. He, too, decides to die facing up. As they slowly raise the blade of the guillotine, the engineer suddenly says, "Hey, I see what your problem is ..."

http://sethf.com/freespeech/memoirs/humor/guillotine.php

[Buckeye McFrog]

He’ll die of old age. The current SCOTUS is fishing for some reason to scuttle the death penalty.

[stubernx98]

I think life in prison is way to expensive, with free health care, TV, library, work out rooms etc. We should get an Island up in Alaska, put a big wall around it, put the lifers in there and let them figure out how to survive. We could dump our garbage there. they would have to generate their own power with stationary bikes, and grow their own food etc.

[C210N]

the failure to find a vein is unusual, but unintentional...

Could be intentional on the part of the inmate.

For him to succeed here would encourage others facing the same, to not drink water for 24 hours, making it very difficult to find a vein.

[Yogafist]

So you are in agreement that he should be released having suffered through a couple hours of trying to find a vein. Now that’s punishment.

[SkyDancer]

I like to give credit where credit is due - I'm sorry I forgot who I got it from. I like to check profiles of people who I post to as well as those posting to me. It's a great line.

R/Janey

[treetopsandroofs]

Since when was Snopes the last word on legality or truth? Snopes has been shown to be slanted to the Left.

Exactly so, and hence my "Even...."

Plus, many here agree with me that double jeopardy does not apply to the execution.

[treetopsandroofs]

“It will also make it extremely difficult for anyone to pick up what’s left.”

And that’s why we have so many super duper cleaning services....

[Vigilanteman]

Yep, the key phrase is how death sentences are pronounced:

Nobody is ever sentenced to be "dropped from the gallows" or to receive "a jolt in the electric chair" — a death sentence is phrased such that the guilty party is "to be hanged from the neck until dead" or "to have electric current passed through his body until dead." So if the rope breaks or the electric chair shorts out, the condemned man's reprieve lasts only as long as it takes to correct the problem or schedule another date for execution.

Uncommon common sense from snopes.

[kingu]

A single bullet through the heart. A guaranteed sweeter death than anyone sentenced to death ever gave their victims. 100% effective.