A second execution was later scheduled for 2022, but he died in prison in 2020 before it could be carried out. Ohio is now under a de facto death penalty moratorium as DeWine has said a lethal injection is no longer an option because of the state’s inability to find drugs. Romell Broom, 64, is suspected to have died of COVID-19 on Monday some 11 years after Ohio tried to execute him by lethal injection and failed, the state prison system said. Cried in pain after receiving 18 needle sticks during a 2009 botched execution that was called off after two hours. “Let his passing in this way, and not in the execution chamber, be the final word on whether a second attempt should ever have been considered,” they said.īroom was sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton after abducting her in Cleveland in 1984 as she walked home from a football game with two friends. Supreme Court that he should be spared a second attempt.īroom survived the 2009 execution “only to live with the ever-increasing fear and distress that the same process would be used on him at his next execution date,” attorneys Timothy Sweeney and Adele Shank said in a statement. Romell Broom was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Mansfield, Ohio. His attorneys filed arguments with the U.S. Mike DeWine issued a reprieve and set a new date in March 2022. Romell Broom is a 64-year-old African American man who was sentenced to death when he was 29 years old. His most recent execution date was in June, but in the spring Republican Gov. He was moved there for treatment from the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, also in Ohio. In 2003, Broom accepted an offer from the state of Ohio for a DNA test to try to prove his innocence. He tragically died on Decemof COVID-related conditions at the Franklin Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Romell Broom (J December 28, 2020) was an American man convicted of murder, kidnapping, and rape.He was convicted in 1984 of abducting and killing Tryna Middleton, age 14, who was walking home from a football game in East Cleveland, Ohio.
Romell Broom has been on death row for nearly a quarter of a century. Born on June 4th, 1956 in Muskegon, Michigan, Romell grew up in Ohio, where he moved with his mother when he was about five years old. Broom was returned to death row, where he fought unsuccessfully to avoid a second execution. The State of Ohio has now rescheduled his execution for 22 September.
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