868...Death Penalty F-Up In Ohio

Yesterday was a painful day for Romell Broom, a convicted rapist and killer, who was to be killed by the state of Ohio yesterday afternoon in Lucasville. Mr. Broom, 53, killed a 14 year old girl a quarter century ago.

Amsterdam News.net reports that the executioner of Mr. Broom could not find a vein to put the needle in that was to kill the killer. And they looked. For more than two hours they tried to find a place to insert the catheter that would send Mr. Broom to the next dimension. Nothing.

Authorities have said they will need to come up with a solution so Broom can be put to death by lethal injection in the state's official execution chamber and have given him a one week reprieve.

This has to be incredibly painful for all involved and brings to mind this quote from Amnesty International:

The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Beheadings, electrocutions, hangings, lethal injections, shootings and stonings have no place in the 21st Century.

Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan.

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382...Scott Tribe, Vernor's, Good Taste

Scott Tribe makes the case for Vernor's ginger ale being the finest ginger ale in the world.

Scott Tribe is right.

Wikipedia states that "Vernors is the oldest surviving ginger ale sold in the United States...[dating back to] 1866."

It is primarily available in Detroit, Ohio, Michigan, Chicago, Southern Ontario and Florida but, for example, in Ottawa, Ontario, Farm Boy carries it.

The finest.

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