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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-inmate-survived-09-execution-put-death-37688300
Court: Inmate Who Survived '09 Execution Can Be Put to Death
By andrew welsh-huggins, ap legal affairs writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mar 16, 2016, 4:35 PM ET
The state can try again to put to death a condemned killer whose 2009
execution was called off after two hours during which he cried in pain
while receiving 18 needle sticks, *the Ohio Supreme Court* said
Wednesday.
The court's *4-3 ruling* rejected arguments that giving the state
prisons agency a second chance to execute Romell Broom would amount to
cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy. [...]
With a federal appeal of the ruling likely, a second execution is
years away. [...]
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