America: A Truly Civilized Nation
A brutal story from death row: Executioners failed to find a vein in the arm of death-row inmate Romell Brown, driving Brown to try to insert the lethal-injection needles himself on Tuesday. The Independent reports that Romell Brown sobbed while executioners at the South Ohio Correctional Facility futilely tried to find a suitable vein in his arm for two-and-a-half hours. Finally, Ohio governor Ted Strickland granted Brown a week’s reprieve. Broom, 53, was tried and convicted for the rape and murder of Tryna Middleton, a 14-year-old he abducted at knifepoint in 1984.
WIth liberty and justice for all. This is justice?? This isn’t “cruel and unusual punishment” expressly forbidden by the constitution? Why didn’t they just waterboard him for a little too long??