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Ohio Murderer May Finally Face Execution Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Maggi Martin writes that, after 21 years of appeals, double-murderer Richard Cooey may soon receive his sentence. Cooey was sentenced to die on December 1986 for the rape and murder of two waitresses, Wendy Offredo, 21 and Dawn McCreey, 20. Cooey had disabled the victim's car by hitting it with a rock thrown from an overpass. Minutes later he pulled up in his car and offered to take the girls for help. He drove them to a remote area where he raped and strangled them. The most recent delay in Cooey's case was an Eighth Amendment challenge to the state's lethal injection process. With that issue settled, the state attorney is asking the Ohio Supreme Court for an execution date...continue to full post

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