'Obese' Inmate Dies Of Lethal Injection

NewsNet5 ^ | 10/14/2008 | NewsNet5

[mmichaels1970]

LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- Ohio has executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued he was too fat to die humanely by lethal injection.

Richard Cooey died at 10:28 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

There were no immediate reports of problems finding suitable veins to deliver the deadly chemicals.

His attorneys had argued that his weight problem could make it difficult for prison staff to access a vein. A prisons spokeswoman said earlier that Cooey received a pre-execution exam and was cleared.

Cooey was the first inmate executed in Ohio in more than a year, and the first since the end of an unofficial national moratorium on executions that began last year while the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed Kentucky's lethal injection procedure.

The 41-year-old Cooey killed two University of Akron students in 1986.

[mmichaels1970]

More details of his crime are at the link. The man who claimed he was too fat to die had this for his last meal: T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, french fries, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries."

[Borges]

Too fat to die too evil to live.

[Izzy Dunne]

Dies Of Lethal Injection

Hence the word "lethal".

[Wolfie]

Won’t be long before he reaches his target weight.

[MeanWestTexan]

Guess this means he’ll just get to vote for Obama twice now.

[Red Badger]

1986? What the heck have they been feeding him all these years? Bacon grease?..............

[taxcontrol]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation - the lowest cost, eco-friendly, no mess, no fuss, no lawyer solution to execution.

[Mr. K]

no word if he whined like a baby as they dragged his a$$ off for his trip to h@ll?

[relictele]

Funny - I lived in Ohio during the year in question but unfortunately I know far more about this cretin than I have read about his victims in 22 years.

[MeanWestTexan]

I guess a wet sock jammed in his fat mouth and pinching his nose is out?

[Red Badger]

T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, french fries, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries

I guess he wasn't worried about atherosclerosis.........

[WayneS]

I read about Tubby's crimes.

Good Riddance is the only thing I can think of to say.

Oh, and I am just a tad disappointed that Tubby did not die long ago and in excrutiating pain.

[austrian]

they executed him 22 years after he did commit the crime?
seems like a very long time.

[mmichaels1970]

no word if he whined like a baby as they dragged his a$$ off for his trip to h@ll?

No word on that. Reportedly his last words were something to the effect of: "You didn't care what the f*** I had to say for the last 22 years, why should I say anything now?"

[Eternal_Bear]

He doesn’t seem to have complained about his execution has he?

[WayneS]

...and he was right about that!

[BibChr]

I’m wanting to write “LOL” for your remark, but not wanting to because of the somber subject.

Starting to think that my personal nightmare should become: finally getting published, but having FReepers go over my grammar, syntax, and word-selection.

[savedbygrace]

Hey, admit it, you just like seeing that confused look on the reporter’s face when you feed him a line like that, don’t you?

;-)

[oust the louse]

Won’t be long before he reaches his target weight.

THAT’s FUNNY!

[ArrogantBustard]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation

Yep ...