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By Beacon Journal staff and wire services
POSTED: 12:22 p.m. EDT, Oct 08, 2008
Condemned killer Richard Wade Cooey says prison food is partly responsible for making him too fat to be executed humanely.
Cooey is scheduled to die by lethal injection Oct. 14 for killing two University of Akron students in 1986.
His attorneys said in a brief filed Tuesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that the state is partly responsible for Cooey's physical problems that might make his death unnecessarily painful.
The appeal says his obesity could make it difficult for the execution team to find a viable vein for lethal injection.
Lawyers also repeated another claim that headache medication prescribed by state doctors could reduce the effectiveness of an anesthetic administered during execution.
State attorneys argue that all of Cooey's claims are invalid because he missed an earlier deadline for filing appeals.
Cooey, 41, is being housed on death row in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.
Cooey was a 19-year-old Army private home on leave and partying with friends when he and a friend kidnapped, robbed, raped and bludgeoned Dawn McCreery 20, and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986.
Cooey 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.
Condemned killer Richard Wade Cooey says prison food is partly responsible for making him too fat to be executed humanely.
Cooey is scheduled to die by lethal injection Oct. 14 for killing two University of Akron students in 1986.
His attorneys said in a brief filed Tuesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that the state is partly responsible for Cooey's physical problems that might make his death unnecessarily painful.
The appeal says his obesity could make it difficult for the execution team to find a viable vein for lethal injection.
Lawyers also repeated another claim that headache medication prescribed by state doctors could reduce the effectiveness of an anesthetic administered during execution.
State attorneys argue that all of Cooey's claims are invalid because he missed an earlier deadline for filing appeals.
Cooey, 41, is being housed on death row in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.
Cooey was a 19-year-old Army private home on leave and partying with friends when he and a friend kidnapped, robbed, raped and bludgeoned Dawn McCreery 20, and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986.
Cooey 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 12:32 PM, 10/08/2008
One more week and we wont have to here about this loser anymore.
Posted 12:33 PM, 10/08/2008
The sooner the better.
Posted 12:39 PM, 10/08/2008
KEY WORD HUMANLY...THIS IS NOT A HUMAN...HE IS AN ANIMAL...SLAY HIM NOW!
Akron, OH
Posted 12:40 PM, 10/08/2008
One of the few times they caught a serial killer in training.
Bye, Cooey.
Posted 12:51 PM, 10/08/2008
IF ONLY THE VICTIMS COULD HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO PREVENT THEIR DEATHS THE WAY THAT COOEY IS WORKING SO HARD TO PREVENT HIS.
Posted 12:51 PM, 10/08/2008
Are you kidding me? I wonder how unnecessarily painful the deaths of his victims were. He's worried about the docs not finding a viable vein and he bludgeoned two people to death? Please!
Akron, Oh
Posted 12:59 PM, 10/08/2008
Cooey can stop coming up with those stupid excuses its only a matter of time that he will get what he deserves.
Its obvious that the prison food isn't that bad if he hogged it all down and gained all that weight no ones fault but his own. At least we now know prisoners are getting fed well, probably better than most people.
The only pain and suffering I see in this case is of the two girls and their families. Justice will be served as soon as that needle is injected, its been a long time coming.
Akron, OH
Posted 01:04 PM, 10/08/2008
From what I understand, the Ohio State Penitentiary started serving Heart Healthy Diets last year. Hmm, how is it that he is too fat eating there??? Nice try Cooey.
Posted 01:09 PM, 10/08/2008
its way long overdue``get rid of him
Akron, OH
Posted 01:13 PM, 10/08/2008
From what I understand, the Ohio State Penitentiary started serving Heart Healthy Diets last year. Hmm, how is it that he is too fat eating there???
Akron, OH
Posted 01:14 PM, 10/08/2008
From what I understand, the Ohio State Penitentiary started serving Heart Healthy Diets last year. Hmm, how is it that he is too fat eating there???
Akron, OH
Posted 01:20 PM, 10/08/2008
WOW, what's up with the new way to post comments. I type in my comment once, go away to check my e-mail, come back and my comment is posted 3 times???? WHY?????
Fairlawn, OH
Posted 01:26 PM, 10/08/2008
They should just feed Cooey to Ahmadinejad.
Boston Hts, Oh
Posted 01:39 PM, 10/08/2008
If it was the prison food, then why arent all the inmates big fat azzes?
akron, oh
Posted 01:45 PM, 10/08/2008
Lets take a vote here, since we are in the voting mood right now, who thinks this idiot should be put before a firing squad so he won't be afraid that the system will make him uncomfortable trying to find his stupid veins? I don't think he was too worried about how uncomfortable his victims were when he was beating the crap out of them. I don't feel one bit of pitty for this animal and how much pain he will be in when they put him to death. His death could not be soon enough for me. I am tired of looking at his stupid face in the paper and hearing about how fat he is getting on my tax money. He should have been put to death years ago!!
somewhere near you, US
Posted 01:52 PM, 10/08/2008
Just "git r done" and get the next death row dog on deck.
LOL!!
akron, oh
Posted 02:04 PM, 10/08/2008
Butcher him like they did cows in the old days. hang him upside down and slit his throat. And then stuff a fattening doughnut in his mouth for good measure.
Posted 02:29 PM, 10/08/2008
Please!! This man wasn't too thin/fat to kill. His victims wanted to live and grow old, but Cooey took
right away from them. I truely feel sorry for the victim's families.
Posted 03:24 PM, 10/08/2008
I agree I feel for the family of the victims - the sooner he is gone the better.
Posted 03:29 PM, 10/08/2008
Oh, wah. So it might hurt when they dig to try to find a vein??!! I bet the girls he murdered didn't have it nearly as bad as him, right?
akron, oh
Posted 03:44 PM, 10/08/2008
I feel sorry for the family. They man should be put down, like the animal he is. Stop giving him food, and start an IV diet only so the vein will be ready for him.
Posted 03:52 PM, 10/08/2008
This only shows what kind of lowly coward he is. Like most guilty people - he's skirting around denying full responsibility. Who cares if he's fat. Just inject him and get it over with.
Posted 04:30 PM, 10/08/2008
If he's afraid of not finding a vein- Why not just bludgeon him to death, two people doing it at a time to represent each girl.
cuyahoga falls, oh
Posted 05:55 PM, 10/08/2008
if he's way too fat for adequate lethal injection, and we can rely on the same stupidity that is his own intelligence that caused this evil, ignorant and selfish crime in the first lace, maybe he would just volunteer to be bludgeoned to death by his fellow inmates...you know, what's good for the the goose is good for the gander kind of thing...a dahmer deal.
in 1986 richard cooey was a disgustingly selfish human being then, and he is even more disgusting of a human being now
he is squirming just like the pig he always was as his own impending doom looms closer by the second
bye, richard. better luck being someone valued as a member of society next time.
Tallmadge, OH
Posted 06:14 PM, 10/08/2008
Shoot him in the head. Quick and painless.
Posted 07:33 PM, 10/08/2008
Put him in a room with HD Browns tapes from the first 3 games...he'll find his own veins.
Wait, that's what we watch.....
akron, oh
Posted 08:19 PM, 10/08/2008
give him a wiff of "laughing gas" and when he's out--go poking around for the vein to let the drugs work!! I know people "bigger" than he is and they give blood and have no problem with nurses and doctors finding veins on them. Give it up Cooley--atleast you get to say good-bye to your famliy. And for all you bleeding heart people that claim that this is a in-human way to die--just remember all the victims and how the pain they went though and their families and friends
akron, oh
Posted 08:22 PM, 10/08/2008
So what hap pend to prison food being inedible???
Guess his prison had a better chef.
Akron, OH
Posted 08:42 PM, 10/08/2008
Interesting how everyone here supports the death penalty (for very obvious reasons) but then they'll vote for Bleeding Heart Obama.
