Death row inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected
Ohio unsuccessfully tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009, convicted of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl he abducted in 1984.
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Ohio unsuccessfully tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009, convicted of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl he abducted in 1984.
In 2015, the execution team began working on Broom, in a holding cell 17 steps from the execution chamber, at about 2 p.m., four hours after his execution’s originally scheduled time due to a final federal appeals request. Broom even assisted his executioners by trying to help them find veins. When his help made no difference, he turned onto his back and covered his face with his hands. His torso heaved and his feet shook. He wiped his eyes and was handed a roll of toilet paper, which he used to wipe his brow. When the technicians tried to use a vein in his leg, he grimaced, and a member of...
The Associated Press COLUMBUS — 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, pendi...
Ohio inmate who survived execution attempt dies in prison of probable Covid-19 David K. Li and The Associated Press © Provided by NBC News A condemned Ohio inmate, who survived an executioner's needle more than a decade ago, has died — probably from complications of Covid-19, officials said Wednesday. © Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Image: Romell Broom (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction / via AP) Romell Broom, a 64-year-old convicted murderer, passed away on Monday at Franklin Medical Center, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitati...
Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected Andrew Welsh-Huggins Updated: Tags: This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Romell Broom, an Ohio death row inmate who survived a botched execution attempt in 2009, who died Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, from possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible compli...