Ohio Supreme Court: State can try to kill prisoner again
In a truly bizarre Ohio Supreme Court ruling, it was decided that the state can attempt to execute a convicted killer a second time after a botched first attempt.
The split 4-3 decision ruled that attempting to kill Romell Broom a second time does not violate the U.S. Constitution Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The decision relies on a technicality: the first attempt to kill Broom via lethal injection does not count as a failed execution because deadly chemicals never entered his body.
Dissenting opinions from other Justices were strongly worded, saying that Broom was tortured the first time his execution failed, and that the decision “is wrong on the law, wrong on the facts, and inconsistent in its reasoning.”
Broom’s case marks the first time since 1947 that a do-over of an execution will be permitted in Ohio.
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