Romell Broom

Romell Broom (June 4, 1956 – December 28, 2020) was an American criminal convicted of murder, kidnapping and rape. He was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton. Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but after executioners failed to locate a vein he was granted a reprieve. A second execution attempt was scheduled for June 2020, which was delayed until March 2022. Broom died in prison before the sentence could be carried out.
Crime.
Broom was convicted of abducting and killing Tryna Middleton, age 14, who was walking home from a football game in East Cleveland, Ohio, in September 1984. In 2003, Broom accepted an offer from the state of Ohio for a DNA test to prove his innocence—however, the test results failed to exonerate him. The clemency hearing concluded that "the DNA report does not indicate an exact match ... Otherwise stated, eight or nine other black males in the country would have the same profile." 
Broom also had convictions for robbery, aggravated robbery and four counts of kidnapping a male child. He was also convicted in a separate incidence of raping a female child.
Aborted execution.
Broom was scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009. 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. Broom's lawyers argued that his first execution attempt was cruel and unusual punishment, and that executing him would mean that his evidence would be "irretrievably lost" for their broader lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal injection procedure. U.S. District Court Judge Gregory L. Frost scheduled a November 30, 2009, hearing on the issues.
Amnesty International started a campaign to inform the public about the failure of the execution attempt.
There is also a documentary on this case, "The Second Execution of Romell Broom" by Michael Verhoeven, and Broom wrote his own story in the e-book "Survivor on Death Row".
In March 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Broom and ruled that the state could again try to execute him. In August 2016, Broom asked the Supreme Court of the United States to halt a second execution, with his lawyers arguing that another execution attempt would be cruel and unusual punishment and would violate double jeopardy protections under the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. constitution. On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to give Broom a hearing on his appeal. On May 19, 2017, the Ohio Supreme Court scheduled an execution date for Broom, on June 17, 2020. On April 14, 2020, Broom's execution was delayed to March 16, 2022.
Death.
Broom died on December 28, 2020 at Franklin Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, at age 64 from suspected COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio.