Richard Cooey, the man who murdered University of Akron students Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery 22 years ago was executed today in Ohio. He had claimed his obesity would make his execution by lethal injection inhumane.
Cooey and a co-defendent were convicted of raping and killing Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20, in 1986 while on leave from the US Army. The two men carved the Offredo and McCreery's bodies with a knife after repeatedly raping them and choking and beating them to death.
Soap Box Ravings asks what responsibilities does the State have to the victim(s) of heinous crimes. Did Cooey humanely kill his victims? I think not.
When a person has committed a crime serious enough to call for their execution Soap Box Ravings feels their appeal should be seriously and expeditiously carried out. But Soap Box Ravings also feels that Inmate Cooey should not have been held long enough to gain 70 pounds. Once the review was completed, Cooey should have been executed.
Soap Box Ravings often asks with the bastardization of our criminal system perhaps executions should be banned. Years ago an article in Florida said it cost about 3 million dollars for an appeal and each executed State prisoner had three appeals before they were executed. I am not sure it is worth nine million dollars to execute someone. Perhaps the sentence should be Life Without Parole.
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