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Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« on: August 05, 2008, 07:00:26 AM »
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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.

Cooey, 41, was sentenced to die for raping and murdering two female University of Akron students in 1986. After a federal judge granted Cooey a last-minute reprieve in 2003, Cooey was returned to death row. In April, he lost a challenge to Ohio's lethal injection process when the U.S. Supreme Court said he had missed a deadline to file a lawsuit.

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Cooey's use of the drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender's Office, said in documents filed with the court.

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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.

Painful execution of vermin may be cruel, but it should NOT be unusual.  Constitution upheld.  Problem solved. 

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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2008, 07:10:00 AM »
Take him off the seizure meds a couple weeks before. I mean what the hell does it matter if he seizes? He's on death row and scheduled to die. This is just ridiculous!

And it's in Ohio again...between portly peeps and naked in the streets we are working our way towards a Florida reputation.  :thatsright:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2008, 07:13:34 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on August 05, 2008, 07:10:00 AM
Take him off the seizure meds a couple weeks before. I mean what the hell does it matter if he seizes? He's on death row and scheduled to die. This is just ridiculous!

And it's in Ohio again...between portly peeps and naked in the streets we are working our way towards a Florida reputation.  :thatsright:

Liberal logic...he's medically unfit for execution.   :whatever:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2008, 07:15:31 AM »
Quote from: lug-nut on August 05, 2008, 07:13:34 AM
Quote from: jtyangel on August 05, 2008, 07:10:00 AM
Take him off the seizure meds a couple weeks before. I mean what the hell does it matter if he seizes? He's on death row and scheduled to die. This is just ridiculous!

And it's in Ohio again...between portly peeps and naked in the streets we are working our way towards a Florida reputation.  :thatsright:

Liberal logic...he's medically unfit for execution.   :whatever:

Liberal logic=the suspension of logic...Since when does one need to be 'fit' to die? Lug, the mind swims, does it not?  :thatsright:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2008, 07:20:17 AM »
Well, just put the fat murtha on a "die-it".
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2008, 10:39:01 AM »
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Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed

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.

Cooey, 41, was sentenced to die for raping and murdering two female University of Akron students in 1986. After a federal judge granted Cooey a last-minute reprieve in 2003, Cooey was returned to death row. In April, he lost a challenge to Ohio's lethal injection process when the U.S. Supreme Court said he had missed a deadline to file a lawsuit.

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Cooey's use of the drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender's Office, said in documents filed with the court.

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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.

Painful execution of vermin may be cruel, but it should NOT be unusual.  Constitution upheld.  Problem solved. 

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Ya know, the entire court system and even the Congress itself found no Constitutional problem in sentencing a woman - Terry Schiavo - to death by starvation for considerably less than this guy has done.  I say it's time this form of capital punishment is put into widespread use, and I vote we start with THIS lard ass.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2008, 10:47:25 AM »
A .45 in the back of the head wouldn't hurt much and only for the briefest period of time....
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2008, 11:08:32 AM »
Let me at him with an Exacto knife, I'll find one of the damned vein for 'em.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2008, 12:57:00 PM »
Bring back the Guillotine........
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2008, 02:37:53 PM »
Than let him starve to death. Case closed!  :evillaugh:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2008, 03:22:10 PM »
Quote from: Jim on August 05, 2008, 10:47:25 AM
A .45 in the back of the head wouldn't hurt much and only for the briefest period of time....

My thoughts exactly.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2008, 03:54:40 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on August 05, 2008, 03:22:10 PM
Quote from: Jim on August 05, 2008, 10:47:25 AM
A .45 in the back of the head wouldn't hurt much and only for the briefest period of time....

My thoughts exactly.



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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2008, 04:09:16 PM »
Too fat after 23 years in prison.... ::)

Dang....what's he getting fed?

Ohioans tax dollars at work.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2008, 04:21:52 PM »
Quote from: debk on August 05, 2008, 04:09:16 PM
Too fat after 23 years in prison.... ::)

Dang....what's he getting fed?

Ohioans tax dollars at work.

Lots of white bread, processed meat, and no vegetables.  And he probably didn't bother to exercise.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2008, 06:57:28 PM »
Quote from: Jim on August 05, 2008, 10:47:25 AM
A .45 in the back of the head wouldn't hurt much and only for the briefest period of time....

And you can be a fat ass and still die just as quickly as anyone.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2008, 08:33:10 PM »
Why not just stick the needle in his jugular or in his eyeball?  Stupid fat prick has been alive for 22 more years than his victims.  He just needs to freaking die already.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2008, 09:07:07 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on August 05, 2008, 08:33:10 PM
Why not just stick the needle in his jugular or in his eyeball?  Stupid fat prick has been alive for 22 more years than his victims.  He just needs to freaking die already.
Awww, come on now.  Don't hold back.   :fuelfire:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2008, 09:15:19 PM »
one word.....  :pms:
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #18 on: August 05, 2008, 10:03:56 PM »
I'll kill the fat murdering  :censored: for free.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2008, 11:49:50 AM »
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Inmate Who Said He Was Too Fat to Die Executed

CINCINNATI —  Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued he was too fat to die humanely by lethal injection on Tuesday, the state's first execution since the end of an unofficial national moratorium.

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.

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"For what? You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment.

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What he got was much better than what he deserved.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2008, 12:01:37 PM »
Another one bites the dust. Good.
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2008, 01:18:02 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on October 15, 2008, 11:49:50 AM
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Inmate Who Said He Was Too Fat to Die, Wasn't.





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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2008, 01:22:00 PM »
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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2008, 01:37:16 PM »
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Cooey was 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row — the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement, his lawyers said.

Man, there's something wrong with that paragraph.  No one but no one should gain weight while in prison.

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Re: Ohio Inmate Claims He's Too Fat to Be Executed
« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2008, 01:50:37 PM »
I'm sure the guards had some dogs and a perimeter fence that could work those 75 pounds right off.

Oh wait; my bad.  I forgot, he's got more rights than I do.
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