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Aug 4, 4:17 PM EDT
Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming 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 - 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds - had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.
Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for Oct. 14.
His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. 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.
Heath says Cooey's weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.
"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," Cooey's public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
Prison system spokeswoman Andrea Carson and Jim Gravelle, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, both said Monday they hadn't seen the lawsuit and couldn't comment.
Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds.
Two years ago, convicted killer Jeffrey Lundgren was put to death after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that he was at greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering because he was overweight and diabetic.
Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming 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 - 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds - had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.
Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for Oct. 14.
His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. 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.
Heath says Cooey's weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.
"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," Cooey's public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
Prison system spokeswoman Andrea Carson and Jim Gravelle, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, both said Monday they hadn't seen the lawsuit and couldn't comment.
Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds.
Two years ago, convicted killer Jeffrey Lundgren was put to death after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that he was at greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering because he was overweight and diabetic.
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(ps: death penalty is useless)
Makes you wonder how much weight he gained while on death row. Nothing a little slim fast won't solve.
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how can this debate be about the death penalty anyway. Surely modern medicine can take a few minutes to adjust the dosages ore the prescription to suit the patient.
What a silly world we live in.
by the way, I consider the death penalty to be childish, ridiculous and vengeful. but that is neither here nor there in this case.
since he's worried about the medicine not being strong enough to kill him then why not just hack his head off or crush his face with an anvil? if i was the dad of the murdered girl i'd do it using just a stick with some nails hammered through the top of it.
If raped and killed my daughter...heck even just raped, he wouldn't be worrying about the drugs on death row working. He wouldn't be worrying about anything at all.
As fat as this guy is, they won't miss.
for the least they could possibly do
Dont forget Ricochet of lovely plump rolls of lard... WTF???? Cant you people be nice to anyone?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I draw the line at convicted rapists ...
for the least they could possibly do
Don't forget the murder....
Oh I just quoted myself. I mean.... um.... let's pick on fat people!!!!!! {but thanks for killing my red herring}
Ah, c'mon now, be nice to the convicted rapist/murderer...
Rapist have feeling too!
I can't and all the bleeding heart fucks who have compassion for people like this.
He made a decision to rape and kill a women. That women can no longer make decisions.
Fuck em...
Hail, Hail!!!
I'm not by any means trying to distract from the horrible crime this guy committed but it is really easy to make statements like the above-be baddass if you like- (especially those of dunkman) when you don't know the guy or his family. No doubt someone will fire back the predictable retort about the father/mother of the murdered girl and how they must feel-fair enough.
But however we try and ignore it this guy is still human, though we may not like to accpet that. Anything does not go.
He's animal. Not human. I'm sorry for the harm this does to his family. But I am not sorry for him.
for the least they could possibly do
But according to the powers that be, lethal injection is the most humane of the ways to kill people.... There is no humane way to kill someone. Exection is murder, so why don't they just take him outside and fill him with bullets and quit pretending that lethal injection is not as bad, just because they think it's humane. It's still murder. So quit trying to pretty it up.
Lethal injection saves money on bullets ...
for the least they could possibly do
:rolleyes:
how about a magic trick? i'm going to make this pencil disappear...
pencils are cheap....
Making his pencil disappear is what got the fat rapist in trouble to begin with ...
for the least they could possibly do