Too fat to execute? Give me a break....

[kt_luvs_kitties]

Sparks I agree. Work, not get paid, and not have ANY amenities. Just the bare minimum.. roof, toilet, showers once every few days. 2 meals a day of the bare minimum.

NO beds, tv, ball courts, magazines, books, gym equipment....


Daisy and Delilah- Some prisons do allow it. At my hubbys they couldnt, because they were all violent criminals, with reoccuring assaults on other inmates and officers. But then again, it is a Max security prison, not medium or minimal,...

[Alysser]

I may get flamed for this but oh well...I hardly agree with execution as it is, but for people to suggest hanging now come on. That is just plain wrong, IMO. Whether you like it or not he's a human being. A sick bastard? Yes but he's a human being. Hanging would make you no better then he is..and not to mention it just plain cruel. I am glad the lethal injection came along but to me execution isn't right.

He's still a sick bastard and being fat is no excuse. If you look at his picture in the article he doesn't look that bad. My other question is why is he so fat IN PRISION? Dont they make him work or limit how much food intake they get?

Eta-Nevermind just saw kt_luvs_cats post. I didn't know they could get snacks anytime they wanted. I think they should still need to work though.

[davidpizzica]

The link didn't open for me, but I read the article here....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,0,90159.story


This article says that another inmate's appeal for the same reasons was turned down & he was executed 2 years ago.

Towards the end of my chemo sessions, my arm veins gave out & they
had to use a vein in my leg. Believe me they will find a way to make it
work. He deserves no special treatment at all for his horrible crimes.

lizbud, not being able to find a vein is no excuse. I'm about an inch taller and about 20 pounds heavier. Throughout all my bloodwork, IVs and injections, they were always able to find a vein in me for a shot. No, this "man" should be injected for his crime.

[lizbud]

lizbud, not being able to find a vein is no excuse. I'm about an inch taller and about 20 pounds heavier. Throughout all my bloodwork, IVs and injections, they were always able to find a vein in me for a shot. No, this "man" should be injected for his crime.

David p, If you re-read my post,you'll see I never said poor veins was
a excuse for anything.

[RICHARD]

Oh,
Eff me to tears.


If this AH had a heart attack, suffered some kind of disease or tried to kill himself they would try to keep this tub of shiat alive.

Go figure!

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Has anyone ever seen where they give a newborn baby an I.V.? You can always find a vein, If not, use a knife.

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From what I heard he dismembered two women after he killed them.

They didn't feel a thing.

[sparks19]

yep... put the needle into a vein in his head. Surely his head isn't too fat to find a vein anywhere.

[lizbud]

He lost his plea for clemency. Time to face the music fella.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=5707609

[Catty1]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...yfp3gD93868C00

Ohio killer: Weight gain isn't to avoid execution

By THOMAS J. SHEERAN – Sep 16, 2008

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A double murderer scheduled to be executed next month in Ohio said Tuesday he has not deliberately gained weight to rule out his death by lethal injection.

Instead, Richard Cooey said in a death row interview that his execution cannot be carried out humanely under current state procedures because his veins are hard to reach.

"Vein access was an issue even when I was back in the service," Cooey, 41, said in an hour-long interview with the Associated Press at the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Cooey, 5-foot, 7 inches tall and 267 pounds, said he has gained perhaps 70 pounds while being locked up for raping and killing two University of Akron students 22 years ago while he was on leave from the U.S. Army. He blamed the weight gain on medication and lack of exercise.

"It's hard getting access to my veins," said Cooey, who was handcuffed and locked in a closet-sized visiting room. He spoke through a straw-sized slit in a reinforced glass partition.

Cooey said he has heard secondhand about comedians' jokes about the Ohio inmate who claims he's too fat to be executed.

But he says that ridicule reflects ignorance of his underlying claim that it's the inaccessibility of his veins that makes it difficult to get an IV inserted for a lethal injection.

The legal challenge is based on constitutional issues and not fear of execution, Cooey said. "It has nothing to do with weight gain," he said.

Instead of lethal injection, "If it would make people happy, shoot me in the head with a .45," Cooey said. "Do it legally."

Cooey and a co-defendant kidnapped Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20, after disabling their car by dropping a chunk of concrete on it from a highway overpass. They choked and beat the women to death after repeatedly raping them, then carved X's in their abdomens.

Cooey deflected questions about remorse and said his past comments about the victims and their families had been misunderstood. "I can't come out good," he said.

Cooey wouldn't say if he would have something to say in the death chamber. He indicated there might be a new legal challenge to his execution, but he wouldn't detail any strategy because he didn't want to tip off prosecutors.

He reiterated claims he's made previously that he participated in crimes leading up to the slayings but denied beating the students to death. Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said his latest claims didn't merit further investigation.

Cooey, who would not discuss his prison life or his family, has been on death row since 1986.

[lizbud]

The execution was carried out this morning & he was ranting untill the end.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,1679176.story

[lvpets2002]

All I have to say is May This Sorry AHMF Rotttt in HELL..

[phesina]

They had no trouble finding a vein, either.

[Marigold2]

Finally justice was served and the families can have some closure and perhaps peace.
There was an article in the Plain Dealer Sunday about this.
I remember when this happened. It still brings chills and tears to my eyes.
Those poor girls suffered for more then three hours. I actually begin to shake when I think about their pain.
Just because one is born a human does not give a person the right to kill and be forgiven. We are all born human, it is how we behave that makes us devine and deserving of forgivness.
I want these monsters dead and rotting, I certainly don't want my tax dollars going to feed that lard butt killer.

All I have to say is May This Sorry AHMF Rotttt in HELL..

[sparks19]

have fun in H#ll you jerk off.... I hope you rott there. perhaps you will finally know that torture you thrust upon the innocent.

I hope they laughed in his face when he was ranting

[blue]

He got off easy.