Ohio executes man who argued he was too fat to die

[akdiver 3]

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer Tuesday who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.Richard Cooey, 41, had argued in numerous legal challenges that his weight problem would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins to deliver the deadly chemicals, a problem that delayed previous executions in the state. There were no such difficulties, said Larry Greene, a spokesman for the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility....Cooey, who killed two University of Akron students in 1986, walked into the death chamber wearing gray pants and a black short-sleeve shirt and was strapped onto the gurney....Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said the family was disappointed that Cooey was vulgar and hateful to the end. "He still would not apologize and still would not accept responsibility for what he did," she said....Cooey and a co-defendant were convicted in the sexual assaults and slayings of McCreery and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986.

Good for Ohio, for not letting this cretin eat is way out of justice being served. The only tragedy here is that it took 22 years before the state killed this sorry #######.

Edited October 14, 2008 by akdiver

[MrsCat 6]

good for that dirtbag. If only justice had been speedier.

[peejay 327]

It appears that he wasn't too fat to die. And it took 22 years for the justice system to figure that out? Oh, pleez!

[aidan80 9]

What ever happened to firing squad?.. Can't miss the veins then!