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US-Häftling Romell Broom
He survived his own execution, and now he may have died from Covid-19
Decades of death row in Ohio State Prison: Romell Broom (file photo)
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An Ohio state inmate who survived an attempted execution by poison injection 11 years ago has now died of possible complications from the coronavirus infection.
In reality, Romell Broom’s life was supposed to end on September 15, 2009: On that day, the US state of Ohio tried to execute the then 53-year-old by lethal injection. But the execution had to stop after two hours because the executioners could not even after 18 attempts to find a suitable vein for the lethal injection into the arms, legs, elbows or wrists and ankles of the condemned man and Broom was already screaming in pain. .
Now, the corona virus may have done what Ohio authorities failed: Broom is dead. The convicted murderer died Monday at the age of 64, according to the Associated Press news agency. Possible cause of death: the coronavirus.
Romell Broom fought a second execution
According to the report, spokeswoman Sara French said that Broom was included in a list of people suspected of having died from Covid-19 until a death certificate was available. According to the state, 124 inmates have already suffered from confirmed or probable corona infections. One death row inmate was currently infected with Sars-CoV-2 and another 55 had tested positive, but later recovered.
Since his failed execution, Broom had fought a second execution. His final execution date was originally set for June, but in the spring, Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine granted a clemency and it was rescheduled for March 2022.
Broom survived the 2009 execution “only to live with growing fear and concern that the same process would apply the next time he was executed,” lawyers Timothy Sweeney and Adele Shank said after his 64th death. -Year old. “Let his death in this way, and not in the execution chamber, be the last word on whether a second attempt should have been considered.”
Broom had been sentenced to death in 1985 for kidnapping 14-year-old Tryna M. when he was returning home from a football game in Cleveland a year earlier, and then raping and murdering her.
Ohio is currently on hold with the death penalty pending enactment of a method other than lethal injection. Governor DeWine, when he took office last year, imposed what he called an “unofficial moratorium” on executions due to recurring problems for drug companies to sell drugs to the state for lethal injections.
Puff up: Associated Press, Cleveland.com, The Public’s Radio
