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Condemned killer scheduled to be executed Oct. 14
Published on Friday, Oct 03, 2008
From staff and wire reports
COLUMBUS: Options are dwindling for condemned killer Richard Wade Cooey, who argues he's too fat to be executed humanely under the state's lethal-injection process.
Cooey's scheduled execution on Oct. 14 would be the first in Ohio in more than a year.
He was convicted in the 1986 kidnapping, rapes and murders of University of Akron sorority sisters Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo.
His final legal challenge is pending in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, where he is seeking to have lethal injection declared unconstitutional. Cooey also is awaiting a decision on clemency from Gov. Ted Strickland.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Cooey's contention that he can't be executed humanely because he has poor veins, a problem exacerbated by his obesity.
U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost said Cooey missed a deadline for filing a claim over his poor vein access.
Cooey, 41, had also argued a drug he takes for migraine headaches would interfere with the injection chemicals.
Cooey was a 19-year-old Army private at home on leave in Akron and partying with friends when he and a friend kidnapped, robbed, raped and bludgeoned McCreery 20, and Offredo, 21. He has blamed co-defendant Clint Dickens for bludgeoning the women. Dickens was 17 at the time of the murders and was sentenced to life in prison.
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Posted 09:46 AM, 10/03/2008
I didn't know that he was an Army private home on leave. That's a fact that has been noticeably absent from the press coverage before. Doesn't justify or excuse the crime, but still, it's interesting to know.
Posted 09:55 AM, 10/03/2008
cooey showed no mercy when he coldhertedly killed those young girls. I believe a life for a life. he should have been executed a long time ago. I have no pity for jerks like him who try to take advantage of a system just to save his own butt.
Posted 11:31 AM, 10/03/2008
Pathetic whiner. Only 11 more days.
Akron, OH
Posted 11:51 AM, 10/03/2008
WHEN IS COOEY GOING TO DIE, THE AKRON BEACON JOURNAL GIVES THIS SCUM TO MUCH PRINT. THE NEXT PRINT WE SHOULD READ ABOUT HIS SCUM IS COOEY'S DEAD!!! BY ELECTRIC OR LETHAL INJECTION
Boston Hts, Oh
Posted 01:09 PM, 10/03/2008
His Military service was reported, you must have miseed it.
11 More days Indeed!!
Rot in Hell Richard.
Boston Hts, Oh
Posted 09:54 AM, 10/08/2008
This is your last Wednesday on earth Richie, Hell awaits you!!
