In 1947, Louisiana electrocuted 18-year-old Willie Francis by electric chair a year after an improperly prepared electric chair failed to work. Chris Schroeder, an assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said the antihistamines allegation was not part of the state’s argument. Shank, in seeking to rebut the state’s argument about purposeful hydration, said she saw Broom drinking coffee the day of the execution. Romell Broom died from COVID-19 on December 28, 2020, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.He is the second death-row inmate in Ohio to die from the coronavirus. Requiring Broom to endure another execution attempt would double up his punishment by forcing him to relive the pain he’s already been through, Shank and Sweeney argued last year.ĭuring a June hearing, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor asked Shank about a prison official’s testimony that Broom may have caused the problems with his veins by ingesting an entire box of antihistamines the day before to dehydrate himself. The governor’s office wasn’t yet aware of the group’s petition or request for mercy, said spokesman Joe Andrews. The 18 times Broom was stuck with needles as he lay strapped to a gurney demonstrate the execution had begun, said Kevin Werner, executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions. “Whether you believe it’s the hand of God or just basic government failure, as happened in this case, they don’t get to do this again,” said Tim Young, head of the Ohio Public Defender’s Office. The state’s top public defender said it’s long been understood that the government gets one attempt at an execution. Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger sided with the state in the case, saying the execution never began because the drugs weren’t administered.
In addition, Ohio already has more than two dozen death row inmates with firm execution dates but no lethal drugs to use on them.īroom was sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton after abducting her in Cleveland in 1984 as she walked home from a football game with two friends. With a federal appeal of the ruling likely, a second execution is years away. John Kasich to commute Broom’s sentence to life without parole. They also said a previously unsuccessful execution attempt doesn’t affect the constitutionality of his death sentence.īroom’s attorneys called the ruling disappointing and said they were exploring “additional legal remedies.” Ohioans to Stop Executions, the state’s largest anti-death penalty group, called on Gov. Prosecutors had argued double jeopardy doesn’t apply because lethal drugs never entered Broom’s veins while executioners unsuccessfully tried to hook up an IV.
The court’s 4-3 ruling rejected arguments that giving the state prisons agency a second chance to execute Romell Broom would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy. COLUMBUS, OHIO-The state can try again to put to death a condemned killer whose 2009 execution was called off after two hours during which he cried in pain while receiving 18 needle sticks, the Ohio Supreme Court said Wednesday.
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