On Tuesday evening this week, in Ohio, Rommel Broom was led to the lethal injection chamber for the 1984 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 14 year old girl. Two hours later, Broom walked out under his own power after technicians were unable to insert an I.V. properly into a vein. This is stirring up another controversy over whether or not the state can attempt to put Broom down twice. I take a look at this case, along with some other famous botched executions over the ages, in my column this weekend at Pajamas Media, “The Executioner’s Tale: Rommel Broom’s Botched Lethal Injection.”
The death penalty is a perennially controversial subject, so you are invited to read it in full and share your comments.