أسبوع آخر ليعيش،حيث فشل المسؤلون عن إعدام متهم بالعثور عن وريد مناسب ليحقنوه بحقنة قاتلة
Another week to live: Ohio delays execution after officials can’t find inmate’s usable vein in chilling botched attempt
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 11:38 PM on 16th September 2009
Stay of execution: Romell Broom, 53, in an undated photo, has been granted another week to live after officials were unable to
give him a lethal injection yesterday
رومويل بروم - وهو من أصل جامايكي - ذو ال 53 عاماكتب له عمر جديد لأن هم لم يعثروا على وريد- عرق- لحقنه و إعدامه.إنه ينتظر حكم الإعدام،ولقد حاول المتهم مساعدتهم بالتخلص من الحياة،بأن قبض وبسط أصابعه حتى يظهر الوريد ويستطيعون حقنه بالحقنة القاتلة.بينما كانت عائلته تنظر من خلف شاشة.وبعد ساعتين من محاولتهم حقنه يأس منفذوا الإعدام وأخذوا مدمن الهيروين لزنزانته وهو ينتحب،ولقد بعث محامي المتهم برسالة للمحكمة العليا يعترض فيها على تعذيب المتهم رومويل ،فقانون أوهايو يحدد تنفيذ الإعدام بأن يكون سريعا.لقد ظل رومويل ينتظر حكم الإعدام منذ العام 1984 بتهمة إغتصاب و قتل ترينا ميدلتون ذات الأربعة عشر ربيعا بينما كانت عائدة من مشاهدة كرة قدم في يوم جمعة مع رفيقين في سبتمبر 1984.ومن المحتمل أن ينفذ الإعدام يوم الثلاثاء،مالم ينظر القاضي في قضية تعذيبه التي رفعها محاميه. الفريق الطبي يعتقد بأنه يمكن حقنه بعروق ذراعه اليمنى.
A death row inmate has been given a week’s reprieve after executioners were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal injection.
Convicted killer Romell Broom even tried to help, by turning on his side and flexing his fingers to make his veins stand out, as the victim’s family looked on from behind a screen.
But after two hours, officials at Lucasville prison in Ohio gave up and took the condemned man, who began to sob at one point, back to his cell.
State governor Ted Strickland ordered a week’s reprieve for the 53-year-old former heroin addict.
He has been on death row since 1984 for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton.
He abducted her in Cleveland in September 1984 as she walked home from a Friday night football game with two friends.
His sentence will now be carried out on Tuesday, although it may be further delayed if legal challenges are brought on the basis that Broom was subjected to cruel treatment.
Lucasville prison director Terry Collins said that before Broom’s next scheduled execution, the team would try to determine how to resolve the problem encountered yesterday.
ام الضحية التي أغتصبت وقتلت تحمل صورة إبنتها القتيلة
Justice: Betsy Middleton, mother of Tryna Middleton, who was raped and murdered by Broom in 1984 when she was just 14, holds a picture of her daughter in this undated image
A medical evaluation on Monday had determined that veins in Broom’s right arm appeared accessible.
About an hour into the execution effort, a lawyer for Broom, Tim Sweeney, sent an e-mail and fax to Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer asking him to end the procedure.
Sweeney said continuing the effort would deny Broom his constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment and violate Ohio law that requires lethal injection to be quick and painless.
صورة للسجن
Prison officials at Lucasville prison in Southern Ohio are now reviewing how to perform Broom’s execution
غرفة الإعدام
Lethal injections are carried out in execution rooms like this one in the U.S. penitentiary at Terre Haute
Collins said the difficulty in the process ‘absolutely, positively’ does not shake his faith in the state’s lethal injection procedure.
The problems prompted the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio to ask state officials to immediately halt executions.
‘Ohio’s execution system is fundamentally flawed. If the state is going to take a person’s life, they must ensure that it is done as humanely as possible,’ ACLU Ohio counsel Carrie Davis said.
‘With three botched executions in as many years, it’s clear that the state must stop and review the system entirely before another person is put to death.’
Richard Dieter, director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, said he expects legal challenges will mean Broom will not face execution again in a week’s time.
‘I think this is going to be challenged, whether under our standards of decency subjecting someone to multiple executions is cruel and unusual… whether this is in effect experimenting on human beings, whether or not they’re sure what works in Ohio,’ he said.
Florida has also experienced problems with lethal injection.
A history of botched executions
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