Convicted killer to be executed for second time

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March 18, 2016 2:49 PM

A convicted killer who survived an attempt to execute him for his crimes in 2009 will be put to death again.

Convicted killer to be executed for second time

Romell Broom, 59, was convicted of the rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in 1984 and has been on death row since.

He was supposed to be executed by lethal injection in Ohio in 2009, but the executioners weren’t able to hook up the IV.

The execution was stopped by the then-Governor Ted Strickland after the team tried for two hours to find a suitable vein.

Afterwards, Broom said he was stuck with needles 18 times – causing such intense pain that he cried and screamed.

Broom’s attorneys, Adele Shank and Timothy Sweeney, said a second attempt would amount to cruel and unusual punishment, and would double up Broom’s by forcing him to relive the pain he’d already been through.

Broom was convicted in 1984 of abducting, raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton, who he snatched of the street as she walked home from an American football game in East Cleveland, Ohio.

He also had convictions for robbery, aggravated robbery and four counts of kidnap of a boy as well as another conviction of raping a girl.

No date has been set for his execution.

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