Man on Death Row for 22 Years Says that He’s Now Too Fat to Execute.
OH, this is priceless:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he’s too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Conveniently, lethal injection is the only legal means of execution in Ohio, which means that if the judge rules in his favor, there’s no execution. Clever, huh?
Then again, he was clever enough to rape and murder two women in 1986 and still remain alive. He’s been on death row for 22 years. His victims were 21 and 20 years old. He’s already had one stay of execution. That, folks, is not justice. That is ridiculous.
But the article gets even more bizarre.
Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey — 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds — had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
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His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. The drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender’s Office, said in documents filed with the court.
Weight gain? Migraine medicine? On death row?!?
Seriously. No. The judge needs to tell this guy that he’s plain out of luck and that he’s going to die in October as scheduled. If Cooey is worried that the migraine medicine will cancel out the sedatives he has a very simple option. He can stop taking the medication. But this execution should go on, just as scheduled.
This last attempt to spit on the graves of two dead college students shouldn’t spend five minutes in front of a judge.
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