USA: Further information: Stay extended following failed execution

Index Number: AMR 51/105/2009
Date Published: 24 September 2009
Categories: USA

A US federal judge has extended a stay of execution in the case of Romell Broom by two months. Romell Broom, a 53-year-old male African American death row prisoner, was subjected to a failed attempt by the State of Ohio to kill him by lethal injection on 15 September.