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Question by One love: What do you think?about this story???
OMG! Im pissed at this story:
*COLUMBUS, Ohio – 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.
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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.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.
Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for Oct. 14.
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.
Heath says Cooey’s weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.
“All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn’t work, the execution is going to be excruciating,” Cooey’s public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
Prison system spokeswoman Andrea Carson and Jim Gravelle, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, both said Monday they hadn’t seen the lawsuit and couldn’t comment.
Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds.
Two years ago, convicted killer Jeffrey Lundgren was put to death after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that he was at greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering because he was overweight and diabetic.
* WTF! Soooooo, theyre worried about the execution being excrutiating and painful to this piece of sh*t?…how did those 2 women feel when they were raped & murdered???? I dont think they enjoyed it! Inmates get too much accomodations, they’re in prison for a reason, dont give them privlieges.Im so sory people, I had to express “my” feelings. Let me know if you agree of disagree ok.
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Answer by The Ardent One (poor twilighters
I agree actually lol. That guy should go painfully he deserves it for what he did to those poor women who did NOTHING to him.
But this isn’t the right place for this kind of question. Try maybe current events or something =]
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What Cooey did was not humane; rape and murder are disgusting, horrifying crimes. But I must say, what kind of society would we have if we killed people inhumanely for punishment? The whole point of using lethal drugs in executions is so they die without pain; that’s why the electric chair is not used in many states today.
I am against the death penalty, but if it’s going to be tolerated the least we can do is make the deaths painless. I’m sure they can get around his obesity and his migraine meds while not causing him pain somehow.
wait how r they gonna kill him? and r they? i dont get it
while I agree that he didn’t care about the pain and suffering of his victims, we still follow the US Constitution(at least parts of it), and the 8th amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment.
By the looks of it, his appeal will be rejected on precedent, so they’ll kill’em anyway.
I admit the guy’s reasoning is pathetic. But the death penalty is wrong anyways. I hate how people talk about the Bible and “thou shalt not kill” but then turn around and think it’s alright to kill someone just because they’ve done wrong in the past. Two wrongs don’t make a right. No amount of wrongs make a right. Furthermore, death is inevitable even to the innocent, so using it as punishment is pointless. And for anyone who is offended by this, I apologize. But I just think it’s pretty stupid to execute a full grown human being, but be apprehensive about aborting a fetus with no brain and no history at all, whose mother and father can barely provide for themselves, much less a kid. Sorry, but everyone makes mistakes. That’s life.