[The_Egg]

Obese Death Row Inmate Says 'Shoot Me'



YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Sept. 17) - 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.

[The_Egg]

Funny I always Imagined Ron as a red head. Maybe its the whole Ronald thing.

[Gag]

Lol, they should call his bluff, shoot him in his big bald head.

[The_Egg]

Maybe The should compromise and sick a hungry Lion after him. Watch him try to run from it.

[TheDriver]

They should put him on weight watchers and then kill him.

[The_Egg]

bread and water

[TheDriver]

How about let him starve. Don't need to find a vein to do that.

[The_Egg]

lol he will need to go on a hunger strike if he wants a .45 to his head anyway.

[elroypornlab]

Originally Posted by Gag

Lol, they should call his bluff, shoot him in his big bald head.

Word shoot his big ass

[BigRon]

No looks nothing like me, though i work around people who have killed more then two some a whole family,thing is leathal injection is humane so is the firing squad.

Personaly i would do away with the death penalty and give them the LWOP, as it takes more then a decade and many tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees we taxpayers pay for to get them to the execution room.

[The_Egg]

Humane and Death penalty should not go together. And what is Humane about making a guy wait 15 years on death row or more? Hanging's are the best way IMO other than the head popping off some times or people dangling for 20 mins. There is just something about it. Lethal injection is there because people want criminals to die but they can't stand to watch it themselves. So If you want someone dead I think you should have to watch them die. Its just part of the game. If you can't stand to watch a criminal Die then maybe they should not. Who knows, I have never been sentenced to die so what do I know?

[elroypornlab]

Originally Posted by BigRon

No looks nothing like me, though i work around people who have killed more then two some a whole family,thing is leathal injection is humane so is the firing squad.

Personaly i would do away with the death penalty and give them the LWOP, as it takes more then a decade and many tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees we taxpayers pay for to get them to the execution room.

It cost too damn much to house and feed and take care of these fucking criminal assholes I say we get ourselves an Australia maybe we could use Cuba
Ship all these violent dicks down there fly around it in Black Hawks using cutting edge technology and shoot one dozen a day with bad ass missiles good training for the pilots and it will really bring the crime rate down also the prison population