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By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 01:30 p.m. EDT, Oct 10, 2008
Gov. Ted Strickland today denied clemency for condemned killer Richard Wade Cooey.
Cooey's scheduled execution Tuesday would be the first in Ohio in more than a year.
The former Akron resident was convicted in the 1986 kidnapping, rapes and murders of University of Akron sorority sisters Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo.
Meanwhile, Cooey is seeking to join an appeal of a judge's finding that Ohio's execution method is unconstitutional.
Cooey's attorney's filed the motion Thursday with the 9th District Court of Appeals.
This move is the latest in a flurry of appeals being filed to stave off Cooey's death as his execution date nears.
He is scheduled to die by injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.
Also on Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court denied Cooey's request for a stay. Later in the day, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request for a stay.
Cooey has argued that his obesity and migraine headache medication compromises the state's ability to carry out his execution humanely. Cooey, 41, weights nearly 270 pounds.
His attorneys are expected to file further appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Strickland said in a prepared statement that he denied clemency based on his and his staff's review of proceedings, evidence, judicial decisions, Cooey's application for executive clemency, arguments for and against clemency and the unanimous recommendation against clemency by the Ohio Parole Board.
Gov. Ted Strickland today denied clemency for condemned killer Richard Wade Cooey.
Cooey's scheduled execution Tuesday would be the first in Ohio in more than a year.
The former Akron resident was convicted in the 1986 kidnapping, rapes and murders of University of Akron sorority sisters Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo.
Meanwhile, Cooey is seeking to join an appeal of a judge's finding that Ohio's execution method is unconstitutional.
Cooey's attorney's filed the motion Thursday with the 9th District Court of Appeals.
This move is the latest in a flurry of appeals being filed to stave off Cooey's death as his execution date nears.
He is scheduled to die by injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.
Also on Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court denied Cooey's request for a stay. Later in the day, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request for a stay.
Cooey has argued that his obesity and migraine headache medication compromises the state's ability to carry out his execution humanely. Cooey, 41, weights nearly 270 pounds.
His attorneys are expected to file further appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Strickland said in a prepared statement that he denied clemency based on his and his staff's review of proceedings, evidence, judicial decisions, Cooey's application for executive clemency, arguments for and against clemency and the unanimous recommendation against clemency by the Ohio Parole Board.
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Akron, OH
Posted 02:01 PM, 10/10/2008
Give it up Cooey. You are finally getting what you deserve. Tuesday can't come fast enough.
Akron, OH
Posted 02:04 PM, 10/10/2008
FINALLY, THANK YOU -- COOEY'S GONNA DIE AFTER ALL
akron, oh
Posted 02:38 PM, 10/10/2008
We are planning a 'lights out fry party' at my house to celebrate.
Posted 02:43 PM, 10/10/2008
Did you show any mercy to your victims while you were extinguishing their lives? You deserve no leniency, no kindness, no mercy. So you think lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment? Hardly! I would think drawing and quartering would be more appropriate for what you did to those poor girls! You just get to go to sleep. Take it like the man that you thought you were while you were committing the crime. No one will mourn your passing.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Posted 03:14 PM, 10/10/2008
Amen
Copley, OH
Posted 03:34 PM, 10/10/2008
I agree 100% Frank! No one will mourn his passing. It's amazing how afraid he is to die. Did he give the same consideration to the girls when he brutally raped and beat them? They were scared and begged for their lives. This is long overdue! Only bad thing -- it won't be televised!
Posted 03:43 PM, 10/10/2008
I'm certain Cooey's victims would have rather died by lethal injection than the way they were killed. What happened to the victims' constitutional rights? And we're supposed to be worried about HIS?!!!
dayton, oh
Posted 04:00 PM, 10/10/2008
Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey Hey
Good Bye
Posted 04:23 PM, 10/11/2008
I don' know about anyone else but I'm getting a demented sort of pleasure seeing this guy in his final days of desperation. I do a search on the name cooey on this newspaper daily to see if there are any new articles on him and hope to see that there hasn't been a stay of execution. I haven't been disappointed yet.
Someone yesterday asked to quit giving him so much press time as if these articles are glorifying him! I don't think that he is enjoying his last days alive because he's getting press time. On the contrary, this guy has to be suffering unimaginably realizing that they are going to puncture his fat body on Tuesday and inject him with deadly chemicals that will end his fat despicable existence! Think about the torture he must be going through and realize that is the greatest justice that will come out of this horror.
Akron, Oh
Posted 07:46 PM, 10/12/2008
I wish I had all the money we tax payers have spent on this person. He should have died 22 years ago.
