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CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio death row inmate says prison food is partly responsible for making him too fat to be executed humanely.
Richard Cooey is scheduled to die by lethal injection Oct. 14 for killing two University of Akron students in 1986.
His attorneys said in a brief filed Tuesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that the state is partly responsible for Cooey's physical problems that might make his death unnecessarily painful.
The appeal says his obesity could make it difficult for the execution team to find a viable vein for lethal injection. Lawyers also repeated another claim that headache medication prescribed by state doctors could reduce the effectiveness of an anesthetic administered during execution.
State attorneys argue that all of Cooey's claims are invalid because he missed an earlier deadline for filing appeals.
And in the news of the absolutely absurd today.... So that's a good plan for death row inmates... start gaining weight... The vampires at the blood center have always had trouble locating decent veins for which to take a pint... no matter what weight i've been at... They've never turned me away becuasse of difficult veins... maybe they just need a better medical team at the prison...
But I don't see why it matters if he suffers for a few extra minutes before he dies...it's not like the pain will kill him....har har.
Hahahaha! "some states" hahahaha!
I think it's just the "cruel and unusual" concept they are trying to avoid, but for fuckssake, it's not like the gov'ment REALLY cares about constitutional rights, so this is why this news is pretty ridiculous.
that's why i prefaced my comment with the absurd news for the day
I also find it more than a little disturbing that he's been on death row for 22 years...
the sixth amendment guarentees a speedy trial... but apparantly we're missing the part about swift punishment as well...
I really don't have a strong opinion on the death penalty -I'm not opposed to it -nor am I really in favor of it -but if you're going to apply it to someone - waiting 22 years to give it to them -well that kind of makes the fear o the death penalty rather pointless.
I really don't have a strong opinion on the death penalty -I'm not opposed to it -nor am I really in favor of it -but if you're going to apply it to someone - waiting 22 years to give it to them -well that kind of makes the fear o the death penalty rather pointless.
that's why i prefaced my comment with the absurd news for the day
I also find it more than a little disturbing that he's been on death row for 22 years...
the sixth amendment guarentees a speedy trial... but apparantly we're missing the part about swift punishment as well...
I really don't have a strong opinion on the death penalty -I'm not opposed to it -nor am I really in favor of it -but if you're going to apply it to someone - waiting 22 years to give it to them -well that kind of makes the fear o the death penalty rather pointless.
Do you happen to know the details of his case by any chance? Is it possible they were keeping him around "just incase" he wasn't the killer, and they didn't want to wrongly execute him?
I don't know if this is anywhere near the situation, I'm just curious, and too lazy to look it up myself.
The 41-year-old is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for killing two University of Akron students in 1986. He would be the first person to be put to death in the state since the end of a de facto moratorium on lethal injection began last year.
Cooey has never denied participating in the rape, beating and strangulation of Dawn McCreery and Wendy Jo Offredo near Akron but blames his accomplice for delivering the fatal blows.
Clinton Dickens, who was 17 at the time and cooperative with police, according to authorities, was also convicted for the murders and is serving life in prison.
McCreery and Offredo were abducted on Sept. 1, 1986, shortly after midnight, soon after they left work in Akron. Cooey and Dickens had dropped a piece of cement from an overpass onto the women's car as they drove along a highway. The men then pretended to help the women before eventually killing them.
the accomplice wasn't given the death penalty but he was...
So San is all about having convicts being drawn and quartered
*lol*...depends on what they did actually. He didn't deny he did it, and seeing what he has done, I don't think it's inhuman to let him suffer a little for it. *shrugs*
Then again, that might just be me being a little sore and bitter when it comes to these things.
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