[digg-me]An Ohio inmate on death row, Richard Cooey, has filed a lawsuit to further delay his execution for being too fat. Cooey’s medication for migraines might interfere with the drug used to put inmates to sleep before lethal drugs are injected. The 5′7, 265 pound ginger-kid is convicted of murdering two women in 1986. The AP writes:
“All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn’t work, the execution is going to be excruciating,” Cooey’s public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday.
I’m no expert but since when was state sanctioned …