A death row prisoner went through 18 attempts to execute him through lethal injection before dying of suspected Covid. Romell Broom’s body was left riddled with cuts from the attempted injections as officials couldn’t find a vein that would take the fatal dose, reports the Daily Star.
The Governor of Ohio then initially gave him a one-week reprieve after his lawyers argued the first attempt to execute him constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
The prisoner had spent 24 years on Ohio’s death row after being convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering 14-year-old Tryna Middleton as she walked home in 1984.
He has always pleaded innocence and had a DNA test in 2003 which failed to clear his name and his date of execution via lethal
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