Too Fat to Execute?

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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.
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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...
 
txsqlchick said:
Or we could just shoot him in the back of the head like the Chinese do.
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Some states don't allow that..


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.
 
LowFatMilk said:
Some states don't allow that..


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.
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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.
 
Yes, beucase there was nothing unnecessarily painful for the people he killed. I dont care. Inject the bastard.
 
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.
 
maleficent said:
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.
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same here, and NO KIDDING! :iagree:
 
maleficent said:
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.
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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.:sifone:
 
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.
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the accomplice wasn't given the death penalty but he was...
 
They are worried that it might make his death 'unnecessary painful'?? It SHOULD damn well be painful!! *grumble*
 
maleficent said:
So San is all about having convicts being drawn and quartered :)
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*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.
 
I am against the death penalty.

To expand - no one deserves to die no matter their crime.
 
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Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument - CNN.com

Ohio does not serve a "last meal," as death-row inmates are given the opportunity to eat breakfast before a scheduled execution, Carson told CNN. But on Monday night, she said, Cooey ate a "special meal" consisting of a T-bone steak, hash browns, french fries, four eggs over easy, onion rings, four pieces of toast, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, Mountain Dew and bear claw pastries. He did not eat breakfast Tuesday, Carson said.

Oh geez...
 
:rant: Anybody who's against the death penalty might not want to read this.....

First things first.....I didn't exactly know what that guy had done before, but after reading it, there were a few things that came to my mind....

So, it was apparently cruel to execute him because of his weight....well, I have an idea. How about bread, water and hard labour for 12 hours a day, instead of feeding him up over 20 years or something? That would have saved some taxpayers money as well!

They could also have forgotten about the injection, and have gone for the 'what goes around, comes around' approach - stick him in a room with some 500 lbs guys and let him get raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Maybe with a nice X carved into his fat belly, just for nostalgic reasons. And just to give him a taste of what 'cruel' really means.

As far as I am concerned, the guy got off lightly. And why in the world did they keep him around for 20+ years anyway? If they'd gotten rid off him 20 years ago, he wouldn't have had the chance to get fat in the first place....just a thought. :rant:

Yepp, touchy subject. Very touchy indeed. And I admit, I might have an extreme view on this, but can you really read that article and think that there was an alternative to ridding the world of that animal, once and for all?
 
Some ways I am for the death penalty, some ways not. I do think bad people don't deserve to live, but in some ways I think death is an easy way out. They don't really have to feel their punishment that way, do they? And there is always the issue of killing an innocent person...however I don't think this guy is innocent.
 
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