Romell Broom Wiki – Romell Broom Biography
Romell Broom was an American criminal convicted of murder, kidnapping, and r**ape. He was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton. Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but after executioners failed to locate a vein he was granted a reprieve. A second execution attempt was scheduled for June 2020, then delayed until March 2022. Broom died in prison before the sentence could be carried out.
Broom was convicted of abducting and killing Tryna Middleton, age 14, who was walking home from a football game in East Cleveland, Ohio, in September 1984. In 2003, Broom accepted an offer from the state of Ohio for a DNA test to prove his innocence—however, the test results failed to exonerate him. The clemency hearing concluded that “the DNA report does not indicate an exact match … Otherwise stated, eight or nine other black males in the country would have the same profile.”
Broom also had convictions for robbery, aggravated robbery and four counts of kidnapping a male child. He was also convicted in a separate incidence of ra**ping a female child.
Romell Broom Age
Romell Broom was 64 years old.
Cause of Death
An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 has died of possible complications of Covid-19, the state prisons system said.
Romell Broom, 64, has been placed on the “Covid probable list” maintained by the department of rehabilitation and correction, spokeswoman Sara French said on Tuesday. Inmates on that list are suspected to have died of Covid-19, pending a death certificate, she said. The state says 124 inmates have died from confirmed or probable cases of the coronavirus.
Ohio unsuccessfully tried to put Broom, then aged 53, to death by lethal injection on 15 September 2009. The execution was called off after two hours when technicians could not find a suitable vein, and Broom cried in pain while receiving 18 needle sticks.
At the time, Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.
Broom was returned to death row, where he fought unsuccessfully to avoid a second execution. His most recent execution date was in June, but in the spring Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, issued a reprieve and set a new date in March 2022.