Richard Cooey, the man who murdered University of Akron students Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery 22 years ago, claims that his obesity makes finding his veins for lethal injection next month will be impossible.
Richard Cooey gave an interview to the Associated Press from an Ohio State Penitentiary visiting cell and spoke about how he is not trying to escape execution but thinks lethal injection will not work properly on him. "If it would make people happy, shoot me in the head with a .45," Cooey said. "Do it legally."
Richard Cooey weighs in at 270 pounds, 70 pounds heavier than when he first entered death row in 1986 for double murder. He says that vein access had been a problem for his whole life.
Cooey and a co-defendent were convicted of raping and killing Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20, in 1986 while on leave from the US Army. The two men carved the Offredo and McCreery’s bodies with a knife after repeatedly raping them and choking and beating them to death. Cooey is still scheduled to be executed via lethal injection next month.
Source: Associated Press