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Lawyer: Ohio execution on hold after vein troubles

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:43:18 PM · by Responsibility2nd · 64 replies · 1,302+ views
Assoc. Press ^ | 09/15/2009
LUCASVILLE, Ohio – A lawyer for a condemned inmate in the state death chamber says execution team members have taken a break after struggling to access the inmate's veins. Attorney Tim Sweeney says the team is having trouble inserting IVs into the arms of 53-year-old Romell Broom. Broom is sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984. It was the second delay of the Tuesday execution, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Broom entered the death chamber shortly before 2 p.m. after losing a last-minute appeal request. In 2005, an execution was delayed for more...


3 posted on 10/26/2009 2:27:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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I’m quite sure that if this inmate had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery they would be able to find a vein for an IV.


37 posted on 10/26/2009 3:36:34 PM PDT by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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