The failed attempt to execute Broom, described by critics of capital punishment as ''virtually unprecedented'', has again raised questions over the continued use of executions in the US.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered that Broom be deposed for a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection procedure.
The deposition for Broom is set for Monday, a day before he is again scheduled to be executed. His lawyers were planning overnight to file appeals in state and federal courts seeking to cancel or at least postpone his execution.
Prison officers this week described how, after about an hour of hunting for a suitable vein, Broom helped by turning on to his side, moving rubber tubing along his arm and flexing his hand and muscles.
At one point, technicians found what appeared to be a suitable vein but it collapsed as they inserted a needle, apparently because of past drug use.
Broom became so distressed that he lay on his back and covered his face with both hands. One of the execution team handed him a toilet roll to wipe away tears.
The prison director, Terry Collins, contacted Ohio's Governor, Ted Strickland, to tell him of the difficulties. The Governor issued a temporary reprieve. Mr Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed towards the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
Ok, so I am going to probably make a few more enemies by saying this but I truly don't care .I do not care what this man did, or any man for that matter, nobody deserves to have to go through that twice. Once is bad enough.
Look, I come from a country that abolished the death penalty many years ago. Too many mistakes can and have been made, innocent people sent to their deaths and then later found to be not guilty. I do not, and never will, advocate the use of the death penalty on anyone. Give them life in jail (hard labour if they are particularly nasty), just don't go killing people willy nilly and then apologising later for accidentally killing innocent people.
This man just survived the single most horrible ordeal he will ever have to go through. The cold, clinical nature of inevitability HAS to have left a lasting mark. The poor bloke was in tears for crying out loud, I don't care how tough he is or what he did - I think he deserves a reprieve. I am not saying let him out, just give him a reprieve of the death penalty.
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[edit on 19/9/2009 by Kryties]
it was a 14 year old girl he raped and took away form her
family, they will NEVER see again.
We blew it. It happens. Back to the pit he goes. 
