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...
