'Too fat to die' murderer is executed
A double murderer who claimed he was too fat to be safely executed was put to death by lethal injection today.
Richard Cooey, 5ft 7ins and 19 stones, had tried to escape his sentence by claiming his obesity would cause difficulty in finding suitable veins for the shots.
Cooey ,41, who killed two Ohio university students in 1986, lost a final appeal earlier today to the US Supreme Court.
Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery.
The men had been throwing concrete slabs off a bridge on to a main road and one of them struck Ms Offredo's car.
Pretending to "rescue" the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field.
They were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hours of rape, torture, stabbing, and fatal bludgeoning. Cooey carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women.
Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder. Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.
Cooey's argument also had been rejected by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court, with both courts ruling that he missed a deadline for filing appeals.
A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early today and was cleared.
He walked into the death chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at at 10.15am and was strapped onto a trolley.
"You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment.
Cooey tapped the fingers of his left hand several times before he died.
His lawyers had argued that Cooey was 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row - the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement.
The last Ohio inmate to be executed was Christopher Newton - who was similar in size to Cooey - in May 2007. The execution team had trouble putting needles in his arm, which delayed his execution nearly two hours. There were similar problems in the execution of another inmate in 2006.
Richard Cooey, 5ft 7ins and 19 stones, had tried to escape his sentence by claiming his obesity would cause difficulty in finding suitable veins for the shots.
Cooey ,41, who killed two Ohio university students in 1986, lost a final appeal earlier today to the US Supreme Court.
Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery.
The men had been throwing concrete slabs off a bridge on to a main road and one of them struck Ms Offredo's car.
Pretending to "rescue" the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field.
They were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hours of rape, torture, stabbing, and fatal bludgeoning. Cooey carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women.
Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder. Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.
Cooey's argument also had been rejected by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court, with both courts ruling that he missed a deadline for filing appeals.
A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early today and was cleared.
He walked into the death chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at at 10.15am and was strapped onto a trolley.
"You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment.
Cooey tapped the fingers of his left hand several times before he died.
His lawyers had argued that Cooey was 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row - the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement.
The last Ohio inmate to be executed was Christopher Newton - who was similar in size to Cooey - in May 2007. The execution team had trouble putting needles in his arm, which delayed his execution nearly two hours. There were similar problems in the execution of another inmate in 2006.
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A double murderer who claimed he was too fat to be safely executed was put to death by lethal injection today.
Richard Cooey, 5ft 7ins and 19 stones, had tried to escape his sentence by claiming his obesity would cause difficulty in finding suitable veins for the shots.
Cooey ,41, who killed two Ohio university students in 1986, lost a final appeal earlier today to the US Supreme Court.
Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery.
The men had been throwing concrete slabs off a bridge on to a main road and one of them struck Ms Offredo's car.
Pretending to "rescue" the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field.
They were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hours of rape, torture, stabbing, and fatal bludgeoning. Cooey carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women.
Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder. Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.
Cooey's argument also had been rejected by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court, with both courts ruling that he missed a deadline for filing appeals.
A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early today and was cleared.
He walked into the death chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at at 10.15am and was strapped onto a trolley.
"You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment.
Cooey tapped the fingers of his left hand several times before he died.
His lawyers had argued that Cooey was 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row - the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement.
The last Ohio inmate to be executed was Christopher Newton - who was similar in size to Cooey - in May 2007. The execution team had trouble putting needles in his arm, which delayed his execution nearly two hours. There were similar problems in the execution of another inmate in 2006.
Richard Cooey, 5ft 7ins and 19 stones, had tried to escape his sentence by claiming his obesity would cause difficulty in finding suitable veins for the shots.
Cooey ,41, who killed two Ohio university students in 1986, lost a final appeal earlier today to the US Supreme Court.
Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery.
The men had been throwing concrete slabs off a bridge on to a main road and one of them struck Ms Offredo's car.
Pretending to "rescue" the women, Cooey and Clinton Dickens took the victims to a remote field.
They were subjected to a three-and-a-half-hours of rape, torture, stabbing, and fatal bludgeoning. Cooey carved an "X" into the stomachs of both women.
Each man blamed the other for delivering the fatal blows, but both were convicted of murder. Dickens received a life sentence because of his age.
Cooey's argument also had been rejected by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court, with both courts ruling that he missed a deadline for filing appeals.
A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early today and was cleared.
He walked into the death chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at at 10.15am and was strapped onto a trolley.
"You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment.
Cooey tapped the fingers of his left hand several times before he died.
His lawyers had argued that Cooey was 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row - the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement.
The last Ohio inmate to be executed was Christopher Newton - who was similar in size to Cooey - in May 2007. The execution team had trouble putting needles in his arm, which delayed his execution nearly two hours. There were similar problems in the execution of another inmate in 2006.
US crisis freezes China sovereign funds
Stable Investment Corp, which is registered at the same address as the CIC office in Beijing and shares employees with the fund according to the reports, held 11.1 per cent of Reserve Primary’s shares, or around $5.4bn worth, at the start of September.
A CIC spokesperson declined to comment on ”market rumours” and refused to confirm that Stable Investment Corp, was a subsidiary of the fund.
News of yet another disastrous investment by the sovereign wealth fund is likely to trigger public outrage and further strengthen a political backlash in China, where the government has refused to allow any major offshore financial sector investments this year.
CIC, which was established just over a year ago, invested $3bn in US private equity firm Blackstone and more than $5bn in Morgan Stanley last year, only to watch their shares drop more than 70 per cent since.
Until recently many investors considered money market funds to be almost as safe as bank accounts and before Reserve Primary, the oldest such fund in the US, only one small money market fund had ever ”broken the buck” by dropping below $1.
Reserve Primary’s loss was triggered on September 16 when it was forced to value $785m worth of Lehman Brothers debt securities at zero in the wake of the investment bank filing for bankruptcy protection.
The fund was inundated with withdrawal requests and ended up releasing $10bn at $1 per share before its shares dropped to 97 cents and it froze redemptions, according to Bloomberg.
It is now in the process of liquidating its assets and was expected to make an initial distribution of $20bn to remaining investors on Monday, according to reports.
The problem at Reserve Primary caused panic among investors and within a few days they had pulled more than $400bn from money market funds and other short term funds, such as prime funds.
Stable Investment, the CIC subsidiary, has also invested around $5.9bn in three other money market funds, according to documents filed with the SEC, Bloomberg reported.
That includes $2.1bn in the Invesco Aim Liquid Assets Portfolio, $2.3bn in the JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund and $1.5bn in Deutsche Asset Management’s DWS Money Market Trust.
A CIC spokesperson declined to comment on ”market rumours” and refused to confirm that Stable Investment Corp, was a subsidiary of the fund.
News of yet another disastrous investment by the sovereign wealth fund is likely to trigger public outrage and further strengthen a political backlash in China, where the government has refused to allow any major offshore financial sector investments this year.
CIC, which was established just over a year ago, invested $3bn in US private equity firm Blackstone and more than $5bn in Morgan Stanley last year, only to watch their shares drop more than 70 per cent since.
Until recently many investors considered money market funds to be almost as safe as bank accounts and before Reserve Primary, the oldest such fund in the US, only one small money market fund had ever ”broken the buck” by dropping below $1.
Reserve Primary’s loss was triggered on September 16 when it was forced to value $785m worth of Lehman Brothers debt securities at zero in the wake of the investment bank filing for bankruptcy protection.
The fund was inundated with withdrawal requests and ended up releasing $10bn at $1 per share before its shares dropped to 97 cents and it froze redemptions, according to Bloomberg.
It is now in the process of liquidating its assets and was expected to make an initial distribution of $20bn to remaining investors on Monday, according to reports.
The problem at Reserve Primary caused panic among investors and within a few days they had pulled more than $400bn from money market funds and other short term funds, such as prime funds.
Stable Investment, the CIC subsidiary, has also invested around $5.9bn in three other money market funds, according to documents filed with the SEC, Bloomberg reported.
That includes $2.1bn in the Invesco Aim Liquid Assets Portfolio, $2.3bn in the JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund and $1.5bn in Deutsche Asset Management’s DWS Money Market Trust.
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