Double Murderer Richard Cooey Claims Weight Prevents His Lethal Injection

Richard Cooey, an Ohio double murderer, said Tuesday he has not deliberately gained weight to rule out his death by lethal injection.

Cooey, whose execution for the crime is scheduled for next month, said in a death row interview that his execution cannot be carried out humanely under current state procedures because his veins are hard to reach due to recent weight gain.

Cooey, who stands 5-foot-7 and 267 pounds, said he has gained perhaps 70 pounds since being incarcerated for raping and killing two victims who attended University of Akron 22 years ago. He blamed the weight gain on medication and lack of exercise.

Cooey, 41, and a co-defendant kidnapped Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20, two sorority sisters, after disabling their car by dropping a concrete block on it from a highway. They choked and beat Offredo and McCreerey to death after repeatedly raping them, then carved X's in their abdomens.

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