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Too Fat In Ohio?

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The New York Times carries a brief item from AP, "Ohio: Too Fat for the Death Penalty?"A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he is too fat to be put to death, arguing that executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs. Lawyers for the inmate, Richard Wade Cooey II, claim in a federal lawsuit that Mr. Cooey, who weighs 267 pounds, had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and that the problem has been worsened by weight gain."Killer tries to fight death, again," is the Columbus Dispatch report written by Alan Johnson.Convicted killer Richard Wade Cooey III, who escaped death in 2003 because he argued he had bad lawyers, now says he shouldn't be executed because he's too overweight...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).