For 2 Hours, the State of Ohio worked at EXECUTING a Prisoner.....AND WERE UNSUCCESSFUL

Search Options	close
Search the following clips: All Clips

news science politics food economy art
technology health internet religion psychology

Sign Up Install Learn More Login


	For 2 Hours, the State of Ohio worked at EXECUTING a Prisoner.....AND WERE UNSUCCESSFUL

leevardi

9-25-2009 6:58 AM

104 views

leevardi says:

........WORDS FAIL ME WHEN I READ THIS STORY

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

9-25-2009 10:07 AM

kareval

Romell Broom was convicted of a rape and murder of a 14-year old girl in 1984. For that reason, many people say he deserves no sympathy.

9-25-2009 10:23 AM

Steve Savage

what happened to this man in Ohio’s execution chamber last week should send chills down the spines of those who continue to insist that lethal injection is a humane way to kill people.

I wonder how long the rape and murder of the 14 year old girl took.

Of all the methods for execution, few have measured up to the efficacy of the Guillotine. Of course, that's just off the top of my head.

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from September 25, 2009

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f90aa010-33b4-42b7-ad5d-2aee1e0c56f5/CBE7D5A9-B107-43C8-9CD8-59541697D41B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/"><P class="storyheadline">Chronicle of a Failed Execution: Ohio Prisoner "Traumatized" After Two-Hour Death Chamber Ordeal</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.alternet.org/img/B8400D88-CE56-4D89-B685-6B6EAA3BEA43" alt="romellbroom" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/"><DIV class="teaserleft">
		53-year-old Romell Broom wept and tried to help his executioners find a vein, only to leave the death chamber alive. This isn't "cruel and unusual punishment"?
	</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/"><DIV>Last Tuesday afternoon, on September 17, 53-year-old Romell Broom lay strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, as "medical" staff -- also known as an "execution team" -- struggled to insert IVs into his arms.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/142879/chronicle_of_a_failed_execution%3A_ohio_prisoner_%22traumatized%22_after_two-hour_death_chamber_ordeal/"><DIV>
The point, of course, was to kill him, by the same method currently used in every death penalty state in the country: Lethal injection. It's a technique widely seen as perfectly humane, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year <A href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/82600/">ruled</A> that, despite several documented executions gone awry, it does not violate the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CBE7D5A9-B107-43C8-9CD8-59541697D41B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips