The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from a
death row inmate who argued that because the state botched its first
attempt to execute him, trying again would be unconstitutional.
The court turned the case down in a brief
one-line order. Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan said they would
have granted the appeal to decide the issue.
Ohio prison team members struggled for well over an hour to prepare
60-year-old Romell Broom for lethal injection. They inserted needles at
least 18 times into his arms, wrist, hands, and ankles, but they could
not find a vein that would hold. Some of the attempts caused him to
scream out in pain.
His lawyers urged the justices to rule that another attempt would amount to unconstitutional double jeopardy.
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Source: NBC News
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