Romell Broom (June 4, 1956 – December 28, 2020) was an American death row inmate who was convicted of murder, kidnapping and rape.
Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but after executioners failed to locate a vein he was granted a reprieve.
[2] Decades later, a woman named Vickie Varner claimed that Broom raped and threatened to kill her in 1975, when she was 13 years old.
On September 21, 1984, Broom abducted, raped, and murdered 14-year-old Tryna Middleton as she was walking home with two of her friends from a football game in East Cleveland, Ohio.
The icy road made it harder for Broom to drive, allowing Grissom's mother to hang on.
Eventually, Grissom was able to escape; however, two young men were able to write the license plate number of the car.
However, the executioners tried for two hours to maintain an IV line through which they could inject the lethal drugs, before Ohio Governor Ted Strickland issued a one-week reprieve.
[11][12] In March 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Broom and ruled that the state could again try to execute him.