Man too fat to die?

[jizzay]

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.

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.

[Choppie]

Stick him in the machine they use to kill cows...problem solved.

[Glen Quagmire]

Just tell him you're only going to inject a twinkie.

[jizzay]

I say bring back hanging...they can use Glen's mom's arm as a branch. That's one strong heifer.

[Trips]

gunshot to the back of the head. Clean and simple. Prolly painless.

[binary_jester]

Kick him in the head first, so he dies with a headache.

[jizzay]

Honestly, I feel the death should fit the crime. This guy was found guilty of raping and murdering two young women. I vote for cutting his dick off, pump him full of blood thinners and let him bleed out.

[binary_jester]

This shit drives me crazy. HE's worried about a little pain when he dies and the courts are concerned. I am positive he kept asking, "Does this hurt?" the whole fucking time he was raping and murdering those women.

[binary_jester]

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If the death needs to fit the crime, shouldn't he be thrown in the darkest part of prison and let the guards play cards for a while?

[Trips]

Really the more I think about it the guy should be stabbed then eaten alive by wild boars. Its happened to better people.