(Washington, DC) — The U.S. Supreme Court says it won’t hear a challenge from a man on death row who survived his first execution attempt.
Authorities in Ohio tried to kill Romell Broom by lethal injection in 2009 but couldn’t find a vein that worked.
His attorneys argued that the first attempt was painful and that to try again would be unconstitutional.
They also said it would be repugnant to force Broom to prepare for death a second time.
Broom was sentenced to death in 1984 for the murder of a 14-year-old girl.
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