Posted on 08/04/2008 5:58:14 PM PDT by metmom
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A death row inmate scheduled for execution in October says he's so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and that the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
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"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," she said.
I wonder if his victims had the privilege of a pain free death.
ping
Then starve him to death.
I can’t help but wonder if he gained that weight on purpose.
But that’s a great option.
Hanging would be quite effective with his weight. No chance of him not dropping hard enough.
Worked well in France.
Starve Him...that would be mean and take to long...feed him to Rosie O’Dykel...only take a minute.
Doctors use the veins in infants heads when they need an IV. Can they just shave his head and do that???
I can’t help but notice the hypocrisy.
No method of abortion is considered too cruel to keep liberals from demanding a woman’s right to butcher her own child, but all the bleeding hearts are worried about being cruel to a convicted rapist and murdered.
Is quicker than any other method used so far and is not weight sensitive.
They could use his jugular.
Ready.....Aim......Fire!
Withhold all food and water. It’s supposed to be euphoric.
Good analogy. Libtards weep and wail over a thug that might feel a tiny bit of pain from a needle but support an extremely painful procedure that kills a baby.
This had to be the lawyer’s idea. “Let me see here. I got it! You’re too darn fat.”
“But, uh, how does that save me?”
“Here, I have a bag of donuts here. Keep eating.”
This would make a good comedy show.
The POS is 5’7’ 267 lbs
Can’t find a vein my ass
I say deep fry him.
Richard Cooey
Cooey, 40, was sentenced to die in 1986 for raping and murdering two University of Akron students.
In September 1986, Cooey, then 19, and his accomplice Clint Dickens, 17, abducted, raped and murdered Wendy Offredo, 21 and Dawn McCreery, 20. The women were headed home when Offredo's car was disabled by a rock thrown by Cooey and Dickens from a bridge over Interstate 77 in West Akron.
They were University of Akron sorority sisters who were leaving their jobs as waitresses when 17-year-old Clint Dickens threw a chunk of concrete off an I-77 overpass, striking the windshield of the car that Ms. Offredo was driving. Cooey, who was on leave from the Army, was hanging out with a longtime friend, Kenny Horonetz, and Dickens. The three got into the car Cooey had borrowed from his grandmother and offered the two women help. The five drove to a shopping mall and Ms. Offredo used a pay phone to call her mother. "I'm game if you're game," Cooey said as Dickens suggested they rob the two women, according to court records. They had $37. Cooey pulled a knife on the women when they realized they were not being driven back to their car. Horonetz demanded to be let out of the car after Cooey told him to tie Ms. McCreery's hands. Driving to a wooded area in nearby Norton, Dickens raped Ms. Offredo. "Hey Clint, put on the Bad Company tape," Cooey said, court records say. That led Dickens to say the women should be killed because they knew his name, records show. Dickens grabbed Ms. Offredo in a chokehold, and Cooey used a shoelace to strangle her as Dickens strangled Ms. McCreery with his other shoelace. Cooey beat both women with a club, court records say. A coroner's report said they died from the blows.
Cooey said he raped Ms. Offredo, but he said it was "rape under duress." "I was looking at it - you know when you're a kid and you're high and bombed - I was looking at it at the time as getting laid. In hindsight now, I've matured and I've got a clear head and I've seen that it wasn't," he said. Cooey said he had drunk a dozen beers, snorted cocaine, and smoked opium and marijuana that night.
Asked if he has any hope he won't be executed, Cooey replied: "Not much, but there's always hope," and then he laughed.
“Withhold all food and water. It’s supposed to be euphoric.”
Oh yes. That’s right. Euphoria. And he’ll look incredibly beautiful when his lips are cracked and bleeding. Where’s the Hemlock Society when you need it?
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