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Ohio ready to return to execution business

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, many of the potential legal and practical roadblocks have been cleared in order to allow Ohio to conduct its first execution in nearly 18 months.  Here are specifics:A double murderer who says he's too fat to be executed humanely has passed a pre-execution exam and is cleared to receive a lethal injection Tuesday. Richard Cooey, 41, was given a visual examination by the state when he arrived at the death house on Monday, and officials found nothing that should cause a problem in delivering the deadly chemicals. The 5-foot-7, 267-pound Cooey had tried to avoid execution by arguing that his obesity would prevent humane lethal injection because viable veins in his arms are hard to find. A more detailed examination was to be conducted Tuesday morning, when he is scheduled to die for killing two college students in 1986...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).