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"Courts Reject Inmate?s Petition Claiming He is too Fat for Execution," is Debra Cassens Weiss' article on today's ABA Journal web edition.Two appellate courts have rejected a convicted murderer?s request for a stay of execution that contends his obesity makes him a poor candidate for lethal injection. Lawyers for inmate Richard Cooey claimed it would be difficult to find a vein for lethal injection because of their client?s weight, the Associated Press reports. Cooey is 5-feet, 7-inches tall and weighs 267 pounds. The lawyers say Cooey packed on the pounds because of fattening prison food and limited opportunities for exercise. Both the Ohio Supreme Court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused yesterday to delay the execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).