Posted on 09/10/2007 10:32:15 AM PDT by SmithL
Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge has delayed the October execution of a death row inmate who joined a lawsuit challenging lethal injection as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.
Romell Broom, who raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl, is one of 15 Ohio inmates claiming the procedure may cause prisoners to suffer.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost on Sept. 5 ordered Broom's Oct. 18 execution halted while the lawsuit proceeds.
Another death row inmate asked Frost on Friday for permission to join the lawsuit. Michael Turner, 48, killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend at her apartment in a Columbus suburb in June 2001.
Broom, 51, abducted Tryna Middleton in Cleveland at knifepoint on Sept. 21, 1984, while the girl was walking with friends. He raped her and stabbed her seven times, according to the attorney general's office.
The state argues that the 15 inmates missed a deadline for filing their lawsuit against lethal injection.
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You're right, liberals are far more comfortable with a condemned person starved and dehydrated to death over a period of 2 weeks (it's euphoric!).
Feed him to the ants while he is tied down to an ant hill and covered in honey 60 miles from the nearest city and he can scream all he want, which I hope would be for days.
I vote that all murderers be put to death in the exact same manner that they executed thier victims.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. If it’s good for them, it’s good for the government.
That sounds fine to me. I want them to suffer. Red ants too!!
...is one of 15 Ohio inmates claiming the procedure may cause prisoners to suffer
.OK, I'll admit it; I'm just not getting something here.
They should take this waste of skin out and shoot him immediately just for the appalling gall of this idiotic contention!
Minor but important correction: cruel AND unusual.
Heh, heh, heh.
Is it true that the head keeps talking nonsensically for a few seconds after it's been lopped off?
> The point is, even if it takes multiple tries
> to find a vein, that is still not “cruel and
> unusual.”
Well, quite, but that’s not the point you made originally, and that prompted my reply. As to the issue of getting the drop correct, that’s been fixed for quite some time.
Tell it to the anti-death penalty nutters.
Aw, It’s much, much slower with just the little tiny ants. They can get into mush smaller places, like the tear ducts, way down into the ears. Besides the main purpose is for it to take as long as possible, and with the little ant they can only do a little damage at a time.
Aw, It’s much, much slower with just the little tiny ants. They can get into mush smaller places, like the tear ducts, way down into the ears. Besides the main purpose is for it to take as long as possible, and with the little ant they can only do a little damage at a time.
Aw, It’s much, much slower with just the little tiny ants. They can get into mush smaller places, like the tear ducts, way down into the ears. Besides the main purpose is for it to take as long as possible, and with the little ant they can only do a little damage at a time.
Since you sound like you know I will trust you on the ants. Sounds fine to me.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
...is justice denied. 23 years on DR is more than ridiculous.
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