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| USSC: fat guy can be executed | |
| 2008-10-14 | |
| CINCINNATI (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed. Richard Cooey is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday. The court denied his request for a stay without comment Monday. Cooey is 5-foot-7 and weighs 267 pounds. State officials said prison staff examined Cooey's veins and found no problems that would interfere with the execution.
Cooey, 41, raped and killed two college students in 1986. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #24 Every person improves the world. Some, by sticking around; others, by leaving. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-14 15:45 |
| #23 Cooey was given his final meal around 4 p.m. Monday. It consisted of a T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, french fries, onion rings, hash browns, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, and "real" bear claws from the bakery. Prison staff members said Cooey spent much of the early morning pacing and sitting quietly and went to sleep around 4 a.m. Cooey slept for just over an hour and got up around 5:20 a.m. He showered and declined breakfast. Helluva time to start dieting... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-14 15:42 |
| #22 And not a single last meal joke in the whole bunch... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-10-14 15:33 |
| #21 So I guess he wasn't too fat after all... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-14 15:25 |
| #20 "Executed." So now he's in Hell. Imagine the grease fire he made there. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-14 14:59 |
| #19 NewC, Bless you for your compassion and love for this lost soul. However the Gov't has followed it's God given mandate. Cooey chose not to repent. His choice, given by God. |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-10-14 13:15 |
| #18 Personally, there was a movie with Pitt and Freeman which came to mind, then I remembered Method Man had a lyric quote I thought was more appropriate for this POS. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-10-14 12:06 |
| #17 His final statement was: ''You [expletive] have not paid attention to anything I've had to say for the past 22 years. Why would you pay attention to anything I have to say now?'' Fuck you. Die. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-14 11:32 |
| #16 I guess there really was a fat bastard! |
| Posted by: Tom 2008-10-14 11:25 |
| #15 Actually this did work in washington state once - a guy got so fat that he claimed that hanging would be 'cruel and unusreal' punishment and got it deferred to life. I think WA since changed the 'default' method to injection. Then the SOB got a liver transplant - all on the taxpayers dime. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-10-14 11:23 |
| #14 Executed |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-14 11:18 |
| #13 Starve the fecker to death. Justice needs a little avengement. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-10-14 11:04 |
| #12 Here's the part you never hear about... To give you some context for cruel, here's how Richard Cooey killed his two victims. A chunk of concrete dropped from an Interstate 77 bridge crashing onto Offredo’s black Pontiac Fiero as she and McCreery were returning from a waitressing shift in the wee hours of the morning. The concrete had been dropped by then 17 year old Clint Dickens, who along with Cooey and Kenneth Horonetz jumped into Cooey’s car and pretended to rescue the women. Instead, the three men took McCreery and Offredo to a wooded area. Horonetz got “scared” and fled, after which Cooey and Dickens subjected McCreery and Offredo to 3½ hours “of fear and torture and agony,” By the time McCreery and Offredo were dead, they had been repeatedly raped, stabbed with a pocket knife and bludgeoned with a nightstick. Cooey then carved the letter X into the stomachs of both women. Dawn McCreevy was a voracious reader who planned a career in fashion and marketing and longed to travel to London. Wendy Offredo was a National Honor Society scholar who aspired to be a fashion model and actress. How about they beat his fat ass to death with a cinderblock? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-14 09:55 |
| #11 WAnd I would be sure to be eating french fries when giving the ruling, too. Freedom fries. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-10-14 09:50 |
| #10 Guess he never read all the studies that show that obesity shortens your life, eh? (He's lucky I'm not the judge. 1000 calories per day, strictly monitored, until he gets skinny....then we kill 'em. And I would be sure to be eating french fries when giving the ruling, too.) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2008-10-14 09:01 |
| #9 barbara, if you go too jail fat you usually stay fat. If you go skinny then you tend too gain weight. One thing is that you are in a cell or pod for most the day without anything too do. Also i don't know about other states but when Zell Miller was gov. of georgia he did away with all the weight lifting equipment and such. And if he was that fat before he went too jail he was prob lazy as hell and wasn't going too do any kind of working out after he got there. |
| Posted by: chris 2008-10-14 08:57 |
| #8 Besoeker Plan B. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-14 08:46 |
| #7 At least they're not electrocuting him. Imagine the grease fire! |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-10-14 07:54 |
| #6 Cooey has one more appeal pending before the court How many appeals did his victim get. Neither this nor the 'one more' indicated that there was anything wrong with the verdict or the penalty. The state either carries out its responsibility or forfeits it to others to do - see first scene from the Godfather movie as one appeals an injustice to another power who will grant justice. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-10-14 07:44 |
| #5 The guillotine would avoid all these arguments about inadequate dosages of chemical agent to cause quick death. Nobody's neck is fat enough to resist the blade. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-14 07:44 |
| #4 Cooey, 41, raped and killed two college students in 1986. Gee. I wonder what sort of humane criteria were factored into his decision to rape and kill these two college students. Any others we don't know about? Execute the ba$tard and be done with it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-14 02:30 |
| #3 Justice is not always fair, and fairness is not always justice. You were so full of your own fairness that you forgot the justice you owe to those little ones. You are a whole lot of man that is not man enough to see yourself stricken with such indulgence. So little remorse and subjected to the strange phenomena of prisoner obesity. A crime unto itself if one were pertinent with his observations. The gravity of the barrel you chose for yourself Mr Richard Cooey, is a deep one. Know that I do love you, but that will not help you here. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-10-14 02:04 |
| #2 This jerk has already lived far too long. Kill him and be done with it. Lethal injection is far more merciful than what he did to the young women he killed. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-14 00:35 |
| #1 I still haven't figured out how he got/stayed so fat in prison. It's not like he can raid the refrigerator anytime he wants to.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-14 00:11 |
