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NER: Ohio inmate NOT too fat for execution
I remember someone on this board posting about this appeal a while ago. It failed.
Ohio inmate's too-fat-to-execute argument fails
- Story Highlights
- Richard Cooey, 41, scheduled for execution Tuesday
- Ohio's Supreme Court rejects argument he's too obese for injection
- Attorneys argued prison food, limited exercise made him fat
- Cooey's execution could be first in state since moratorium
The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected arguments that a death row inmate is too fat to die by lethal injection.
Justices on Thursday gave the go-ahead to execute Richard Cooey.
The 41-year-old is scheduled to be executed 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.
Cooey's attorneys had argued that prison food and limited opportunities to exercise contributed to a weight problem that would make it difficult for the execution team to find a viable vein for lethal injection.
Cooey is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 267 pounds.
An appeal is still pending.
Re: NER: Ohio inmate NOT too fat for execution
I do not support the death penalty.
But 267 pounds isn't all that fat. Here's a google image for ref:
edited to clarify: this is not the inmate in question... just some random dude who weighs 267 lbs.
yeah but he's only 5'7. i dunno. but i do agree that he's NOT too fat to find a freakin vein.