COLUMBUS, Ohio AP – One of the executioners involved in last year’s botched attempt to put a man to death was under-trained and failed to attend all the required rehearsals for the Sept. 15 execution, lawyers said in court filings.
The employee’s prison job does not require him to establish IV connections on a regular basis and he has not regularly established an IV outside of executions since 2004 and not at all in the past year, according to a filing by condemned inmate Romell Broom, whose executed was halted by Gov. Ted Strickland, and a related filing by inmates challenging Ohio’s injection method.
