Death row prisoner Romell Broom to be executed for second time

A man whose execution was badly botched in 2009 will be put to death again.

Romell Broom, 59, was convicted of the rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in 1984 and has been on death row since.

He was supposed to be executed by lethal injection in Ohio in 2009, but the executioners weren’t able to hook up the IV.

The execution was stopped by the then-Goveor Ted Strickland after the team tried for two hours to find a suitable vein.

Bessye Middleton holds a picture of her daughter Tryna (Picture: AP)

Afterwards, Broom said he was stuck with needles 18 times – causing such intense pain that he cried and screamed.

Broom’s attoeys, Adele Shank and Timothy Sweeney, said a second attempt would amount to cruel and unusual punishment, and would double up Broom’s by forcing him to relive the pain he’d already been through.