Ohio botched execution survivor appeals to high court

A condemned Ohio killer who survived a 2009 botched execution is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that a second attempt to put him to death would be unconstitutional.Lawyers for death row inmate Romell Broom argue that giving the state prisons agency a second chance would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.A divided Ohio Supreme Court rejected Broom’s arguments in March. At the time, the state asserted that lower courts properly determined that any mistakes