Ohio inmate asks US Supreme Court to intervene
CINCINNATI (AP) — Lawyers for an Ohio death row inmate who has unsuccessfully argued that his obesity prevents humane lethal injection filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to head off Tuesday’s execution.
The Ohio Public Defender’s Office filed the application on behalf of the 5-foot-7, 267-pound Richard Cooey, hours after Gov. Ted Strickland declined clemency. Coooey, 41, is to be put to death for murdering two University of Akron students in 1986.
Last month, the Ohio Parole Board unanimously rejected Cooey’s request for clemency.
On Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati had denied Cooey’s requests for a stay of execution.
Cooey’s attorneys says prison food contributed to a weight problem that would make it difficult to access a suitable vein for lethal injection.
They also argue that Topamax, the migraine medicine prescribed by a prison physician, could reduce the effect
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