Too Fat to Die?
I read this article a couple of months ago, even ’starred’ it on my faithful Google Reader to write about here in blog world. Slowly I will get to my moral, value, and virtues of society, some through these different articles. This particular article may seem strange to save, but brings me to the heart of my thoughts on the death penalty.
This article at USA Today dated August 4th, 2008– “Ohio inmate claims he’s too fat for execution” is appalling to me who cares how stupidly fat he has gotten himself he was given the death penalty now give it to him already!
“Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and that the problem has been worsened by weight gain.”
According to this portion of the article Coorey’s poor veins might cause it to take more time to hook him up to the equipment, an extra 15 minutes poking around to find the veins. Problem? I don’t see one, I think that extra 15 minutes tax dollars have to pay for is money well spent. Again hook him up.
“attorneys for Cooey say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could diminish the effectiveness of the first of three drugs Ohio uses in its execution process.”
What it may take longer for this guy to die because he is on some medication the tax dollars pay for? I don’t think that is reason enough to stop the execution. Give this guy a choice keep taking the migraine medicine for those headaches now, okay so a little more pain at death or — go off the damn medication so death is faster. All a matter of choice, doesn’t take the Supreme Court to decide this, no reason for a tax dollar waste I mean an appeal. Of course then the idiot would probably scream his rights were being violated, like pieces of scum like this should have any rights what so ever!
“Cooey, 41, was sentenced to die for raping and murdering two University of Akron students in 1986.”
I am betting that this piece of crap didn’t show any mercy to the university students he raped and murdered. Did he think about their pain and suffering? Did he care what they might be going through before their death? I am sure he could have cared less as long as he was getting what he wanted at the time. I will never understand why bleeding heart liberals’ think pieces of crap like this should get any kind of reprieve from death. I personally think that lethal injection is too nice for the piece of garbage, death by the same means those university students died would make me feel better, let him feel the pain he inflicted upon them, a true ‘eye for an eye’.
When I reviewed for this blog post I found that the Ohio Supreme Court didn’t fall into his boat load of crap either. On October 9th, 2008 CBS News printed this article “Ohio Inmate Not Too Fat For Death Penalty” stating that the Ohio Supreme Court doesn’t believe he is too fat to die!
“The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected arguments that a death row inmate is too fat to die by lethal injection.”
All I can say is YES!! This should have never even been considered an appeal. These death row inmates get far too much sympathy, including appeals!
I just can’t believe how the State of Ohio did the right thing, even following through with this creeps’ execution a few day later.
On October 14th, 2008 CNN released the following article: “Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument“. All those non-sense claims were not only thrown out of the courts but the execution went on!
“Richard Cooey was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m. ET, said Andrea Carson, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Corrections. The execution went as scheduled, she said, with “no problems whatsoever.”"
Did I read that correctly? Did it say the execution had ‘no problems whatsoever’? I guess being obese and taking migraine medication doesn’t stop the lethal injection from working. Thank you Ohio for showing everyone that it lethal injection works! And just because he was claiming to be obese it didn’t stop him from a real pig-out prior to execution.
“Ohio does not serve a “last meal,” as death-row inmates are given the opportunity to eat breakfast before a scheduled execution, Carson told CNN. But on Monday night, she said, Cooey ate a “special meal” consisting of a T-bone steak, hash browns, french fries, four eggs over easy, onion rings, four pieces of toast, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, Mountain Dew and bear claw pastries. He did not eat breakfast Tuesday, Carson said.”
Personally if I ate that much in one sitting I would have keeled over from massive coronary brought on by over-eating! But at least he got to feel ’special’ before he died – did his victims get this kind of mercy? This article explains a little more as what the crime was that got him the death penalty.
Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the brutal murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery, students at the University of Akron. The men had been tossing concrete slabs onto Interstate 77, and one of them struck Offredo’s car.
Pretending to “rescue” the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field, according to prosecutors. There the students were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hour period of rape, torture, stabbings and fatal bludgeonings. Cooey carved an “X” into the stomachs of both women, prosecutors said.
Did anyone else read that portion which stated he tortured these young women for three and a half hours? I personally think that the death penalty of lethal injection was too good for this creep! Whatever happened to Judge Roy Bean, and his motto “Hang’em first, try’em later”? Okay I would give the creeps trials but I really think some good ole’ fashioned hangings would slow some of this down. I am far from the concerned liberal for these creeps! I hope the families of the victims rest a little better with Cooey’s death, only to bad, so sad that his buddy didn’t get the same punishment – who cares if he was 17 years old when he committed murder!
Sound harsh? Think not! I am sick of mercy for creeps; it appears we just keep breeding creeps in this world.