A death row prisoner will be executed "for a second time" after the first attempt failed.

Paedophile Romell Broom was due to be executed in 2009 but it had to be abandoned because officials could not get a needle into his vein to deliver a lethal injection.

Broom, who was convicted of raping and killed a 14-year-old girl in 1984, argued killing him 'again' would violate double-jeopardy rules.

But the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that because the lethal drugs never made it into his system another attempt would not be unconstitutional.

The state has not set an execution date for Broom as all its lethal injections are on hold while they wait to obtain the drugs needed under its protocol.

Broom, who claims he is innocent, is the only inmate to ever survive an execution using lethal injection.