Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Romell Broom, an Ohio death row inmate who survived a botched execution attempt in 2009, who died Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, from possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said.
At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.
Ohio death row inmate, 64, who survived a botched lethal injection execution attempt in 2009 dies of possible COVID-19 complications
Ohio death row inmate Romell Broom, who survived a lethal injection execution attempt in 2009, died on Monday from possible COVID-19 complications
The 64-year-old has been placed on the COVID probable list pending a death certificate, prison officials said Tuesday
State says 124 inmates have died from confirmed or probable cases of the virus
He was sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton after abducting her in Cleveland in 1984
Broom survived a lethal injection procedure in Ohio on September 15, 2009, and at the time was only the second inmate nationally to survive the execution
COLUMBUS, OHIO An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times. Broom, 64, has been placed on the COVID probable list maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokesperson Sara French said Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of COVID-19, pending a death certificate, she said. The state says 124 inmates have died from confirmed or probable cases of the coronavirus.
Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; Coronavirus suspected
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS article
This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Romell Broom. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said.
At the time of the 2009 procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.
Broom, 64, has been placed on the COVID probable list maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, spokesperson Sara French said Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of COVID-19, pending a death certificate, she said. The state says 124 inmates have died from confirmed or probable cases of the coronavirus.
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