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His lawyers have argued that the inmate-- at 5-foot-7 and 267 pounds -- is "morbidly obese," and has gained about 70 pounds since his incarceration at age 19. Prison food and confinement in his cell for 23 hours a day, limiting his opportunities for exercise, contributed to his weight problem, his legal team said in recent court filings.

Cooey also says regular medication he takes for migraines will weaken the effectiveness of an anesthetic used in the a three-drug cocktail administered during execution. He says his veins are weakened because of his health issues, and the lethal drugs would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

In 2003, one day before Cooey was scheduled to die, a judge stopped his execution on issues unrelated to his health claims.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Cooey waited too long to raise the medical issues, saying he "knew of and could have filed suit over vein access prior to July 2005."

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 them to a remote field, according to prosecutors. There, the students were subjected to 3½ hours of rape, torture, stabbings and fatal bludgeonings. Cooey had carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women, prosecutors said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/10/toofat.execute.appeal/index.html

Luckily the courts aren't cutting him any breaks.

Either way, hopefully he'll just die from a atherosclerosis-induced heart attack. I hear that's more painful than the execution-cocktail they have in store for him.

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Educators destroy your brain,
but you don't know, so why care?
Fagotto

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just hang him seriously

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Yeah. I don't understand how it is cruel and unusual when they did it with Saddam.

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My mom said I was special, but I don't know who Ed is.

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Quote: from Catacomb at 9:32 am on Oct. 11, 2008

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just hang him seriously

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Yeah. I don't understand how it is cruel and unusual when they did it with Saddam.

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I know it's mean, but that's really funny that a morbidly obese person can't be killed because it would be "torture".

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He needs to be tortured from what he did.

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Life is so brief, and time is a thief when you're undecided.
Like a fistful of sand, it can slip right through your hands.

awesome

we need to bring back the chair

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there is a god

and his name is ijustdontknow christ

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They stopped the execution because they discovered that his size and the injection could combine and kill him!

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lol  But isn't that what they're going for!!??