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Death row inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected
Associated Press (via Fox 6 Wisconsin) ^ | 12/30/2020 | Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Posted on 12/30/2020 9:20:52 AM PST by BraveMan

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said.

At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.

Broom, 64, has been placed on the "COVID probable list" maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokesperson Sara French said Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of COVID-19, pending a death certificate, she said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: covid; deathrow; inmate; localnews
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Ohio unsuccessfully tried to put Broom, then age 53, to death by lethal injection on Sept. 15, 2009. The execution was called off after two hours when technicians could not find a suitable vein, and Broom cried in pain while receiving 18 needle sticks.
1 posted on 12/30/2020 9:20:52 AM PST by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan

How much pain did his victim suffer?


2 posted on 12/30/2020 9:22:46 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: SkyDancer

Not enough . . .

Broom was sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton.


3 posted on 12/30/2020 9:27:22 AM PST by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan

Romell Broom, We Hardly Knew Ye!


4 posted on 12/30/2020 9:27:51 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BraveMan

COVID? or God posting His verdict?


5 posted on 12/30/2020 9:28:16 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: BraveMan

For executions bullets are cheap. Death by injection is just a scam to get doctors and the drug companies involved.


6 posted on 12/30/2020 9:28:34 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: BraveMan

Cue Seinfeld “That’s a shame.”


7 posted on 12/30/2020 9:31:20 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: BraveMan

Covid destroyed the flu and death from old age,now its killing death row inmates? I like this covid more and more everyday.


8 posted on 12/30/2020 9:31:35 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: BraveMan

“possible complications” (ie. They can’t actually establish a link and he died of something else)


9 posted on 12/30/2020 9:32:27 AM PST by circlecity
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To: PghBaldy

Daughter’s rape, killing in 1984 haunts parents https://www.dispatch.com/article/20090913/NEWS/309139559

His first rape of a child was in 1975!


10 posted on 12/30/2020 9:36:04 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BraveMan

“No suitable vein?”

Inject it straight into his evil brain after drilling a hole with a Black & Decker.


11 posted on 12/30/2020 9:41:33 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BraveMan

An axe and a tree stump never fails as an execution method. It’s pretty cheap too.


12 posted on 12/30/2020 9:43:10 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BraveMan

Tryna Middleton
13 posted on 12/30/2020 9:45:11 AM PST by BraveMan
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To: ConservativeMind

A man once drilled seven holes in his head and lived. He committed suicide by drilling eight holes in his head.


14 posted on 12/30/2020 9:54:01 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

They could save more money by using a .22 caliper weapon.


15 posted on 12/30/2020 9:56:42 AM PST by BraveMan
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I worked in a big city ER for years.Like most such ERs we had our share of junkies.The physicians and nurses often allowed them to start their own IVs because only they could find a vein.Even battle hardened ER nurses...the *experts* in such things...sometimes couldn’t do it.


16 posted on 12/30/2020 9:57:21 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: ConservativeMind

And a dull bit......................


17 posted on 12/30/2020 9:57:55 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: Gay State Conservative

What, no phlebotomist on duty...? /s


18 posted on 12/30/2020 10:00:19 AM PST by snuffy smiff (Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: snuffy smiff

If you need an IV started in a hurry you want an experienced big city ER nurse doing it.


19 posted on 12/30/2020 10:03:46 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: snuffy smiff

I was one of those phlebotomists who allowed junkies to draw their own blood LOL. You wouldn’t believe the gymnastic maneuvers they would perform to access veins in different parts of their bodies.


20 posted on 12/30/2020 10:08:30 AM PST by GoldwaterCountry
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