Monday, August 4, 2008

A good case for beheading

A death row inmate is claiming he shouldn't face lethal injection because he's too fat to receive lethal injection.

In case you're not familiar with the case, in 1986, Richard Cooey and one of his buddies dropped a chunk of concrete off a bridge onto a car, then pretended to rescue the two girls, aged 21 and 20, inside. Cooey and his pal then took the two girls into the woods and proceeded to rape and torture them for three and a half hours. Then they beat and stabbed the girls to death.

So not only has Richard Cooey sat on death row longer than either girl's entire life, but he's been stuffing himself to the point where he thinks he should no longer be executed. I think a severe reduction diet, perhaps starting with losing his head, may be in order.