COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 3 (UPI) -- Nearly five years after executioners failed to kill Romell Broom, the Ohio Supreme Court will decide whether or not a second attempt would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Broom, 57, was found guilty of the 1984 rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton and subsequently sentenced to death. On September 15, 2009, authorities spent at least an hour attempting to penetrate a suitable vein to inject execution chemicals, finding nothing but muscle tissue and bone.