Court schedules 2nd execution attempt for Ohio killer
"COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio Supreme Court has set a new execution date for a convicted killer who survived a botched execution attempt in 2009.
The court last week scheduled the lethal procedure for death row inmate Romell Broom for June 17, 2020.
Broom was sentenced to die for abducting, raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984.
The 62-year-old Broom is only the second U.S. inmate to survive an execution after the process began.
The state stopped Brooms execution after two hours in September 2009, when executioners failed to find a usable vein following 18 attempts to insert needles..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...40ffced2ddb_story.html?utm_term=.503f37a54a54
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Daughters rape, killing in 1984 haunts parents
Sep 13, 2009
"EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Its been 25 years, and the painful memories linger of the day that Bessye Middletons 14-year-old daughter was raped and stabbed to death.
Tryna Middleton was abducted at knifepoint on Sept. 21, 1984, while she was walking home from a Friday night football game with two friends...
Its been 25 years, and the pain has gotten a little bit better, but there is not a single day that I dont get up and think about her during some point in the day, said Bessye Middleton, 65.
Trynas father, David Middleton, a retired auto worker, wont drive down the street where his daughter was abducted, and for years, he became nauseated on returning to a home filled with memories. Bessye Middleton will drive down the street where her daughter was taken only when she heads to church on Sundays...
Bessye Middleton thinks the time has come.
Its not that you want somebodys life to be taken from them, but hes trying to beat the system, she said in an even tone. We had to suffer. Hes had 25 years longer than her..."
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...penalty_0913.ART_ART_09-13-09_B3_3AF2A5E.html
Link:
http://murderpedia.org/male.B/images/broom_romell/Tryna_Middleton.jpg
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