Richard Cooey

Richard Cooey raped and murdered Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo, two college students, aged 20 and 21. Then Richard Cooey ate and ate and got fat in prison on taxpayer money. Today Richard Cooey is set to die, but his lawyer has filed suit saying that the death penalty would be too cruel because Richard Cooey is just too fat. To give you some context for cruel, here's how Richard Cooey killed his two victims. A chunk of concrete dropped from an Interstate 77 bridge crashing onto Offredo’s black Pontiac Fiero as she and McCreery were returning from a waitressing shift in the wee ... Read Full Story

Richard Cooey Now executed. In Lucasville, Ohio Richard Cooey, 41, was put to death by lethal injection as scheduled. Cooey and Attorneys argued in numerous legal challenges that his weight problem would make it difficult for prison staff to find a suitable vein to use for the delivery of the deadly chemicals. However, a prison spokesman reported there were no difficulties with the execution. Cooey did shout for one of his attorneys during preparations because he was worried the staff would botch the execution. In his final statement Cooey said “For what? You haven’t paid any attention to anything I’ve said in the last ... Read Full Story

Columbus Dispatch LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- Richard Wade Cooey III was executed this morning, forever silencing his personal argument that lethal injection is a cruel and flawed process that can cause an agonizing death. Cooey, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m., only a few minutes after being injected with a lethal flow of three drugs at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. "You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 years, why would you pay any attention to anything I said now?" Cooey said with his final words His execution came just over 22 years after Cooey and a ... Read Full Story

The man who claimed he was too fat to be put to death has had his death sentence carried out. He was convicted in 1986 of kidnapping, raping, and murdering two women, Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreedy . Richard Cooey Wikipedia Entry 'Too fat to die' murderer executed - October 14, 2008 Richard Cooey readied for execution; receives last meal, meets with lawyer - October 13, 2008 blog.cleveland.com Read Full Story

Well, another piece of trash gets his just reward!! Super size that!!!! WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. Richard Cooey, 41, and an accomplice were convicted of the 1986 murders of two college students. 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." Cooey had exhausted his legal appeals and Gov. Ted Strickland earlier denied the 41-year-old prisoner's clemency petition. ... Read Full Story