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By Carl Chancellor
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 11:25 a.m. EDT, Jul 11, 2008
Ohio inmate Richard Cooey's 21-year stay on death row is set to end in October.
The Ohio Supreme Court today ordered the warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville to carry out Cooey's execution by lethal injection on Oct. 14.
In May, the Summit County prosecutor's office asked Ohio's high court to set an execution date after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of lethal injection in a Kentucky case.
In 2004, Cooey sued Ohio, claiming the execution procedure, which uses a cocktail of three chemicals, violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Ohio and most other states had been under an unofficial execution moratorium while awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Cooey, 40, was sentenced to die in 1986 for raping and murdering two University of Akron students.
In September 1986, Cooey, then 19, and his accomplice Clint Dickens, 17, abducted, raped and murdered Wendy Offredo, 21 and Dawn McCreery, 20. The women were headed home when Offredo's car was disabled by a rock thrown by Cooey and Dickens from a bridge over Interstate 77 in West Akron.
A three-judge panel convicted Cooey of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault and kidnapping.
Because Dickens was a juvenile at the time of the crime, he wasn't eligible for the death sentence. He is serving a life sentence.
Carl Chancellor can be reached at 330-996-3725 or cchancellor@thebeaconjournal.com.
Ohio inmate Richard Cooey's 21-year stay on death row is set to end in October.
The Ohio Supreme Court today ordered the warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville to carry out Cooey's execution by lethal injection on Oct. 14.
In May, the Summit County prosecutor's office asked Ohio's high court to set an execution date after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of lethal injection in a Kentucky case.
In 2004, Cooey sued Ohio, claiming the execution procedure, which uses a cocktail of three chemicals, violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Ohio and most other states had been under an unofficial execution moratorium while awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Cooey, 40, was sentenced to die in 1986 for raping and murdering two University of Akron students.
In September 1986, Cooey, then 19, and his accomplice Clint Dickens, 17, abducted, raped and murdered Wendy Offredo, 21 and Dawn McCreery, 20. The women were headed home when Offredo's car was disabled by a rock thrown by Cooey and Dickens from a bridge over Interstate 77 in West Akron.
A three-judge panel convicted Cooey of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault and kidnapping.
Because Dickens was a juvenile at the time of the crime, he wasn't eligible for the death sentence. He is serving a life sentence.
Carl Chancellor can be reached at 330-996-3725 or cchancellor@thebeaconjournal.com.
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