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"Too fat to execute" argument fails

Ohio inmate's too-fat-to-execute argument fails

(AP)?-- 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 theexecution?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.?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/09/toofat.execution.appeal.ap/index.html?

Re: "Too fat to execute" argument fails

  • It's ironic that while I am opposed to the death penalty, I was glad to hear this.  My concerns with the process don't include the fact that he might be uncomfortable in the process of finding a viable vein for the injection, and it does really, really bother me when someone who commits a crime violent enough to be given the death penalty complains about his own personal discomfort. 
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