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Ohio inmate loses bid to stay his execution because of weight
Chicago Trib ^
| Nov 26, 2012
| Kimberly Palmer
Posted on 11/26/2012 5:15:27 PM PST by smokingfrog
Edited on 11/26/2012 5:25:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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A federal judge said on Monday that an Ohio death row inmate weighing more than 450 pounds cannot be given a stay of execution because of his obesity.
Ronald Post, 53, is scheduled to be executed January 16 for the 1983 aggravated murder of hotel clerk Helen Vantz in Elyria, Ohio.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; post
Give him three lethal doses. That should do it.
To: smokingfrog
Since his first appeal in 1997, Post's attorneys have argued that his weight, of more than 450 pounds, in combination with the state's death penalty drug protocols creates a certainty of, "substantial risk for serious and psychological pain" and a "torturous and lingering death." How long did he give his victims?
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:23:41 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
To: smokingfrog
All that time in jail and they couldn’t slim him down a bit.
Didn’t realize you got seconds of prison chow
(Didn’t think anyone would want seconds of prison chow)
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:24:19 PM PST
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: smokingfrog
450 lbs?
They should hang him instead.
His weight would actually contribute to a quick death.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:25:13 PM PST
by
moovova
(Happy Thanksgiving to all. Say a prayer for your country when you bow your head over the leftovers.)
To: KosmicKitty
Maybe they were trying to execute him by using obesity, hoping he would eat enough to explode.
IMO they should have put this a-hole on a diet until he got down to proper execution weight.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:27:08 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: KosmicKitty
Death-camp-diet always works. They were overfeeding him, obviously!
One balogna sandwich per day and he would have lost weight in 15 years, guaranteed!
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:27:28 PM PST
by
9422WMR
(Life is not fair, just deal with it)
To: smokingfrog
...obesity would make it difficult to find a vein for a lethal injection A few bullets would do the trick.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:28:37 PM PST
by
theDentist
(FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: theDentist
Just quit feeding him. Give him all the water he wants.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:29:56 PM PST
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: smokingfrog
he still has time to lose some weight before the execution
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:30:08 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Alex Murphy
Since his first appeal in 1997, Post's attorneys have argued that his weight, of more than 450 pounds, in combination with the state's death penalty drug protocols creates a certainty of, "substantial risk for serious and psychological pain" and a "torturous and lingering death."Kill the lawyers first. 'nuff said.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:33:53 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Tau Food
His delay in meeting his Maker is near 30 years late. No need in letting another year or so pass.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:34:13 PM PST
by
theDentist
(FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: smokingfrog
Give him enough to kill an elephant just to make sure.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:34:22 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
To: smokingfrog
There was a guy here in Wash. state who killed a teller in a bank robbery. Convicted and sentenced to hang.
With prison privileges, bought candy at the prison store and gained so much weight that he sued the state saying his hanging would actually decapitate him. Cruel and unusual etc. He won and went on the back burner.
The state then instituted lethal injection, got a new sentence hearing asking for same. They won and that was the end of him.
Took over 20 years, sadly.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:34:23 PM PST
by
llevrok
(I haven't left America. It left me.)
To: smokingfrog
How did this guy get/remain so fat in the prison diet?
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:35:03 PM PST
by
sagar
To: nothingnew
The kind of long painful lingering death these lawyers want for a fetus about to be aborted. What was its time allowed in the womb? Less than eight months? And this creep has been on death row kept there by his lawyers for how long, exactly??
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:37:18 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral)
To: smokingfrog
Sounds like just a “waffer thin mint” might do the trick.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:38:28 PM PST
by
Stosh
To: GeronL
he still has time to lose some weight before the executionEven more time post execution (the ultimate weight loss program).
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:39:29 PM PST
by
A_Tradition_Continues
(formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
To: smokingfrog
Reminds me of the “a thin mint” Monty Python” skit . . . awesome . . . one thin mint would detonate this tub of lard.
Actually, I’d like to know how this moose gets that much to eat from our tax-dollar-supplemented food supply. Shouldn’t someone years ago have stopped letting this pig eat from such a large trough? Really . . . I’d like to know just how much food is available to the inmates.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:41:34 PM PST
by
laweeks
To: smokingfrog
Nitrogen Asphyxiation - medical breathing mask hooked up to a tank of 99% pure nitrogen. Add a brain activity monitor and turn on to 1.1 atmospheres. Then wait till there is no more brain wave activity.
Economical - A large tank of nitrogen is less than $100 and you can get several uses out of one tank
Clean - no gore, blood or other body fluids involved
Painless - the condemned falls asleep in a few seconds with no feeling of suffocation.
To: Stosh

Messieur Christy, un wahfer thin mint.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:47:01 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: smokingfrog
Guillotine
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:47:24 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
To: smokingfrog
Na...give him the electric chair. ..and stuff an apple in his mouth
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:48:59 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(American is Barack Oaken)
To: nothingnew
Lawyers are just doin’ their job, trying to get the best outcome for their clients. Guilty or innocent would you want your lawyer to do less?
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:50:26 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(I have VOTED AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: smokingfrog
These lawyers at KLUTZ, DUMBKOPF & SHTOOPID must have taken the bar by correspondence course, must have taken exam many times before they passed. Is this the best defense they could conjure up?
Your Honor, I wish to petition the court to delay the execution of my client as his poor physical condition puts him at risk of dying.
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:51:40 PM PST
by
lbryce
(BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
To: smokingfrog
By January the wolves in The Rockies are getting a bit delegate for game. Paint him with gravy and let’s see if he can outrun them
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:55:02 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: 9422WMR
One balogna sandwich per day and he would have lost weight in 15 years, guaranteed! BOLOGNA SANDWICH
> Buy some ham or bologna (one pack) and some bread (one loaf) and buy a little jar of mustard. Then you make yourself a bologna sandwich. Put the bread down on the table, put the bologna on it. Spread the mustard on the bologna. Put another piece of bread on the bologna, then eat it with some milk. Then clean up.
From Cook.com
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:55:17 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:56:23 PM PST
by
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To: tophat9000
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:57:19 PM PST
by
onyx
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posted on
11/26/2012 5:58:24 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: smokingfrog
Apologies for the vulgarity, but hang his fat ass.
To: Stosh
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:06:30 PM PST
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Clay Moore
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:15:33 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: muir_redwoods
Delegate s/b desperate
Darned auto correct
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:18:34 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: smokingfrog

Queequeg volunteers for the job.
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:28:05 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
To: sagar
My guess would be he’s been buying up lots and lots of goodies from the commissary. From what I’ve read, most prisons have a canteen or other store where you can buy things like ramen noodles, snacks, etc. They’re paid for through an account funded either by your prison job wages or (more often) by friends and family who put money in it for you. Post has probably been stuffing his face with as much as he can afford to buy from the place.
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:32:24 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(100% Ex-Democrat.)
To: laweeks
Funny how Mooseshell makes our active teen athletes starve in school lunches, but allows death-row inmates gorge themselves.. WOW
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:37:29 PM PST
by
carlo3b
(Less Government, more Fiber..)
To: smokingfrog
Supersize the electric chair.
Seriously, he wasn’t too fat to commit murder, he’s not too fat to pay the penalty.
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posted on
11/26/2012 6:41:37 PM PST
by
Argus
To: smokingfrog
I was talking to a guy who runs a crematorium furnace. He said they tried to burn a fat guy thinking it would just take longer. Wrong. He said the liquified fat poured out of the oven and flooded the room, and the chimney caught on fire and smoked like a volcano. Half the town showed up thinking there was a pig roast. They sub out the fat ones now.
To: Venturer
Maybe they were trying to execute him by using obesity, hoping he would eat enough to explode.
Could happen.
To: taxcontrol
Yep. Nitrous Oxide is often the preferred method of suicide for Dentists. Painless. They are usually found in the patients’ chair with the mask on.
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posted on
11/26/2012 11:04:16 PM PST
by
octex
To: smokingfrog
Hey, Hey, Hey dat aint fair, dey be descriminating against us heavy folk, I’m Fat Albert and me and the gangs gunna protest!
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posted on
11/26/2012 11:25:13 PM PST
by
IslamE
(epiphany)
To: moovova
They should hang him instead. His weight would actually contribute to a quick death.
That brings to mind the case of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti. As recorded in the Wikipedia:
On January 15, 2007, he was hanged for crimes against humanity. The rope decapitated him because wrong measurements were used in conjunction with how far he was dropped from the platform.
So, I guess you could say, Saddam's half brother ended up as two quarter brothers.
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posted on
11/26/2012 11:37:57 PM PST
by
cynwoody
To: cynwoody
Piano wire noose. Vertical victim guillotine.
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posted on
11/28/2012 9:31:39 PM PST
by
tdscpa
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