Washington - The planned execution of a condemned prisoner was postponed after prison medical workers in the Midwestern US state of Ohio were unable to find an adequate vein for his lethal injection, local media reported. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland on Tuesday ordered a one-week delay in Rommel Broom's execution, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported on its website.
Prison medical staff tried for two hours to find a vein for the procedure in the limbs of the 53-year-old, a suspected serial child molester who was convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of a 14-year- old girl.
The prisoner's attorney called the attempted lethal injection "obviously a flawed process" that inflicted pain and suffering on her client.
