Ohio's top court approved the state to place a convicted rapist and murderer in death row for the second time around. The first one failed after a medical technologist failed to find a suitable vein to induce the drugs.
The convicted rapist and murderer is Romell Broom whose victim was a teenager way back in 1984. According to the NBC, in 2009 they tried to stick 18 needles on him in order to deliver a three-drug cocktail but still failed over a two hour period. Gov. Ted Strickland finally called to end the procedure. He is the only inmate that was able to survive an execution via lethal injection.
The recent court ruling had it at 4-3. As reported by the Nola, Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger sided with the state, saying the execution never began because no drugs were administered. She added that Broom's life was never at risk because the drugs were never introduced. It would not be a shock to the public's conscience to allow the state to carry out the execution again.
On a different view, Justice William O'Neill in his dissent said that the first attempt to execute Broom chills him to the bones. He added that it is not only the defendant who is affected in the situation but also the employees that endured the trauma of attempting to end a fellow human being's life, as per 9 News. ""And now we, as a society, are telling them, 'Do it again,'" he stated.
The defendant has several appeals in federal court but the new execution date has not been scheduled yet. The US has 31 states that allow death penalty regardless of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution that bars cruel and unusual punishments. Since the year 2014, the United States has also seen several poorly carried out executions related to the use of lethal injections.
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