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Overweight Death Row Inmate Pleads For Mercy
08-25-2008
A death row inmate who says he's so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins was ready to plead for mercy Monday before the state parole board.
A story from the AP says, lawyers for condemned killer Richard Cooey and several family members of the two college students he killed were expected to argue for and against his execution.
It's the second time Cooey has asked the state for clemency, a final stage in a death row inmate's appeal process that lets the governor consider the entire picture of an offender's case.
The Ohio Parole Board will make a recommendation to Gov. Ted Strickland after the hearing. Strickland can follow the board's ruling or make his own decision.
Cooey made a similar request in 2003 but was rejected by the parole board and then Gov. Bob Taft.
Click here to read more of this story from the AP.
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