Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution

Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution

ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 5, 1:12 AM ET


COLUMBUS, Ohio - 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 â?? 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds â?? 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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He fucking raped and killed 2 women, I hope this asshole feels as much pain as possible. He is a pussy. He can do the crime yet he won't take the consequences.

He deserves much, much worse than a needle in his arm.

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"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating,"

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Who cares?! Like you said, this fat fucker deserves a whole lot more than that... I think first he should get anal raped by a horse and beaten with a crowbar..thennn, executed. Hell he can go down in screaming agony and I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Exactly.

What about the excrutiating pain his 2 victims felt as they were brutally raped and then killed?

I NO! Like thats ridiculous, why do we put up with that shit. He took those womens dignity AND lives, why the hell should he have any rights! We should have like consentration camps for bitches like him work his fatass to death.

Look at me getting all worked up like this, maybe I wouldn't have to if we had a better system

I agree.

By taking the lives and dignity of 2 women, he should have the dignity and life force removed from his person.

yeah, being a fatty isn't really an excuse to not be executed. If anything they should force him to work out and lose weight prior to his execution, or bring back some more primative forms of capital punishment like uhh.. firing squad? there's no way being fat will stop a bullet from going through your skull.

I'm more of a drawn and quartered kind of girl myself...

then maybe they should just take turns shooting him in the head. i'm sure the executioner won't have any trouble finding his brain even though his head is fat hahahaha.

i hope he fries. what a pathetic mess this fat ass is. now he should go sue McDonalds in civil court for making him so fat. what a joke i hope nobody takes this idiot seriously! oh and if the executioner wants to back down , i will be willing to take his place if he calls in sick to work that day :D

maybe they can extract his fat and make some candles out of it or something. did you ever read MOBY DICK? this guy's blubber is a valuable commodity that one can use to make oil out of.

oh and if america is so fucking concerned with their dependence on oil, this fat fuck will keep the country's energy crisis at bay when they cut his fat ass up into pieces and send them off to the tallow factory!

and if you thought that was morbid, it's nothing compared to what he did to 2 women. so what if he's fat let the fucker die in the most terrible way.

I wonder how he got so fat in jail?

How do you binge in jail when your food is monitered?

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I wonder how he got so fat in jail?

How do you binge in jail when your food is monitered?

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He did sexual favors for all the inmates. I hear his asshole is still hemmoraging :smokin:

I say we make his fat ass pick up trash. A little walking will do him some good.

Hmm you guys def have some good ideas for him but I still like my anal rape by horse

We should do what is cheapest and most efficiant to save tax payers their hard earned money:

A bullet.

or maybe they should make an iron maiden for fattys? I'd say hang him but you'd have to get some real strong rope for that tubby bastard.

There was another guy years back that was on death row, he had the choice out of two ways to die, lethal injection or hanging. He chose hanging, then fucking became a fat fucker*he wasn't a ken doll before, just got huge*.
Eating honestly about $100 a day in junk food from the comm.. and it was found to be at cruel and unusual punishment to hang him, being when he dropped it would rip his head OFF!. And he has managed to avoid the death penalty, but died from liver disease..


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^ Whoever brought him food should be beaten with a rubber hose.

They should just hook that fat boys nipples and testies to a car battery...then force him to eat until his heart gives out while everyone in the prison watches and laughs

People like him, on death row, should be used for things that are too dangerous for non-criminals to risk. These scumdogs should be either executed, or given the chance to contribute something - like being used for medical experiments, shot off to other planets in rockets to see if humans can survive, etc. I'd also like to see a renaissance of the Gladiator system, broadcast on Pay-Per-View, with the proceeds going to the victims and/or their families.

That attempted defense is pathetic. So he likes food does he? It's time for some old school british methods :D Feed him til he explodes!

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That attempted defense is pathetic. So he likes food does he? It's time for some old school british methods :D Feed him til he explodes!

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or falls off a building!

[quote=illnillinois] He chose hanging, then fucking became a fat fucker*he wasn't a ken doll before, just got huge*.
Eating honestly about $100 a day in junk food from the comm.. and it was found to be at cruel and unusual punishment to hang him,

Hung Drawn and Quartered then there would be no problem with the fuckers head being ripped off:cool:, nuff said