By: LISA R. WILSON
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a death row inmate claiming he could not be killed humanely by lethal injection because he was obese. On Tuesday, October 14, 5-foot-7, 267-pound Richard Cooey, 41, died at 10:28 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, confirmed a spokesman with the state attorney general’s office. There were no immediate reports of difficulties finding suitable veins to deliver the lethal injection. Cooey also previously requested that the state use a single drug rather than a three-drug combination, and asked for a stay of execution pending a hearing on that motion, both of which were denied.
Cooey’s attorneys had argued that his weight problem would make it difficult for prison staff to access a vein for lethal injection, thereby causing the death to be painful and agonizing. Cooey is 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row — the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement, his lawyers said. Cooey received a pre-execution exam early Tuesday where he was cleared as eligible for injection.
Cooey and a co-defendant were convicted for brutally raping and slaying University of Akron students Dawn McCreery, 20, and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986. His co-defendant was 17 at the time and was sentenced to life in prison because of his age.
I wonder if Prostitution were legal in Ohio at the time those two were raped and killed. Since it was probably illegal the state of Ohio is clearly to blame for the death of those students. The rest of the World sees the legalization of prostitution as the ONLY way to reduce sex crimes. When will America wake up and LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION! –Note: Craigslist has caused a serious reduction in sex crimes due to the many women (and men) who put themselves to work in the sex trade. Kudos to Craigslist for reducing sex crimes in America! Since Craigslist’s creation there has been a 28% decline in sex crimes, the beneficial connection between the reduction of sex crimes and Craigslist is UNDENIABLE! FACT: There has never been one single case of Aids/HIV ever being contracted in ANY legal Nevada Brothel (source: Nevada Dept Of Health and Human Services). We cannot say the same about city streets in San Fransisco California or Tampa Bay, Florida where unsafe prostitution is all underground and rampant! Save our steets, and our children… LEGALIZE SAFE PROSTITUTION.
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