Death row inmate tells story of own execution
Around 2:00pm, after a shower, a phone call to his brother and several cups of coffee, Romell Broom was told his 25 years on death row would end later that day with him being executed by lethal injection.
Lucasville prison warden Phillip Kerns read the death sentence and a short time later two nurses began to administer three chemicals: one an anaesthetic, one to paralyse his muscles and another to stop his heart.
It was his punishment for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, a charge he has denied.
"There were three guards present in the room. One guard was on the right side of me, one was on the left side of me and one was at my feet," he said, according to written testimony made three days after the ordeal.
Broom's lawyers have filed a suit, arguing that the botched execution and an attempt to execute him a second time violated his constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment.
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