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Ohio Executes Inmate Who Argued Was Too Fat to Die
Ohio executes double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane
By MATT REED Associated Press Writer
LUCASVILLE, Ohio October 14, 2008 (AP) 
The Associated Press 
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Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer on Tuesday who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.

 
In this 2003 file photo, Richard Cooey gestures during an interview at the Mansfield Correctional... <http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=6027845#>
In this 2003 file photo, Richard Cooey gestures during an interview at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, where he is on death row for the murders of two University of Akron students in 1986. The state executed Cooey Tuesday, October 14, 2008, though his attorneys had argued his obesity would make the execution inhumane. <http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=6027845#>
(Haraz Ghanbari/The Columbus Dispatch, via AP)
Richard Cooey, 41, died at 10:28 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, said Jim Gravelle, a spokesman with state attorney general's office.

There were no immediate reports of difficulties finding suitable veins to deliver the deadly chemicals, a problem that has delayed previous executions in the state.

Cooey's attorneys had argued that his weight problem would make it difficult for prison staff to access a vein. A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early Tuesday and was cleared.
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