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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: IslamIsCancer on August 05, 2008, 07:49:43 AM
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca4_1217933635
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey -- 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds -- had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court, also says prison officials have had difficulty drawing blood from Cooey for medical procedures.
Cooey, 41, is sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young women in 1986. His execution is scheduled for October 14.
His attorneys say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could affect the execution process. The drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, Dr. Mark Heath, a physician hired by the Ohio Public Defender's Office, said in documents filed with the court.
Heath says Cooey's weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized.
"All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," Cooey's public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
Prison system spokeswoman Andrea Carson and Jim Gravelle, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, both said Monday they hadn't seen the lawsuit and couldn't comment.
Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds.
Two years ago, convicted killer Jeffrey Lundgren was put to death after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that he was at greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering because he was overweight and diabetic.
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Why can't they just get a rifle and shoot him in the mouth?
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Can't we put him on a Greyhound Bus? He's certainly not going to reach his destination anyway. ::)
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Harpoon him
(http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/whales_whaling/images/harpoon_gun.jpg)
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Harpoon him
(http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/whales_whaling/images/harpoon_gun.jpg)
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
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Harpoon him
(http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/whales_whaling/images/harpoon_gun.jpg)
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
Yeah use his blubber to make cosmetics
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Harpoon him
(http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/whales_whaling/images/harpoon_gun.jpg)
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
Yeah use his blubber to make cosmetics
and oil ;D ;D
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Harpoon him
(http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/whales_whaling/images/harpoon_gun.jpg)
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
Yeah use his blubber to make cosmetics
and oil ;D ;D
Energy independence
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What scares me is: He sounds like he's happy! ::) Does it really take a genius to figure out, the justice department will do WHATEVER is necessary to kill this tub of drek!?
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What scares me is: He sounds like he's happy! ::) Does it really take a genius to figure out, the justice department will do WHATEVER is necessary to kill this tub of drek!?
Yeah Fry him
(http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2006/060611/kramer055.jpg)
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They cant find his veins in the fat bastard
Give me a knife I will find them
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Easy on the language..
As for the topic well, they can come up with an electric sofa
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Easy on the language..
As for the topic well, they can come up with an electric sofa
I thought we had filters in place, weird.
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Whatta ya mean fat!!!! :-[ I am 6'3" and 290 pounds...
I have always admired China's method. They shoot the condemned criminal in the back of the head, toss them on a gurney and then harvest any organs and tissues that can be used.
Would be a great way to pay back society.
Of course, in China, what they define as criminal may not meet the same guidelines as what we might think. Also, I would imagine the majority of the organs wind up in the black market or go to the ruling elite.
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Easy on the language..
As for the topic well, they can come up with an electric sofa
I thought we had filters in place, weird.
I thought we did too! :o
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No the language filter doesn't XXXX the XXXX third person hehe.
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Heck fer and dag nabbit. We filter out Jesus but not the F-bomb. Go figure. :::D
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This is obscene >:(
Righteous people all over the world have not enough to eat and this animal is feeded up by the gouvernment like a pig.
I miss the old righteous times, where evil people in prison got only water and bread. Perhaps sometimes vegetables or some hotpot.
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Too bad he's not in jail in Maricope county Arizona. Sheriff Joe knows how to treat prisoners. They live in tents in 118 degree heat, eat bologna sandwiches 3 times per day, WORK every day and wear pink uniforms.
http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetModule&mn=About_Mcso
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He is not too fat to have an IV placed :::D 267 lbs...he's tiny.
Placing a central line is always an alternative.