
Death Summary: Richard Cooey was executed at 10:28 AM on October 14, 2008 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
His execution took place after a lengthy set of appeals, with his last one being declined. He argued that his obesity rendered lethal injection an inhuman form of execution… which is sort of mind boggling.
At the time of his execution, he was asked if he had any final words, Cooey said “You haven't paid attention to anything I've had to say for the past 22 years, so why would you think that I would think you're going to pay attention to what I have to say now?”
Who was Richard Cooey : In the early morning of September 1, 1986 Cooey and a friend was throwing chunks of concrete off the Stoner Street Bridge onto U.S. Interstate 77 in Akron, Ohio. One of the chunks hit an oncoming car, which was driven by University of Akron student Wendy Offredo (age 20), also in the car was another student Dawn McCreery (age 19).
Cooey and his cohorts pretended to rescue the two women, but in reality they were kidnapping the unsuspecting college students.
The men took them to a near by field and beat, stabbed, tortured and raped the women for three and a half hours they beat them to death and abandoned the bodies.
Cooey was convicted on November 14, 1986, and subsequently sentenced to death.
His execution took place after a lengthy set of appeals, with his last one being declined. He argued that his obesity rendered lethal injection an inhuman form of execution… which is sort of mind boggling.
At the time of his execution, he was asked if he had any final words, Cooey said “You haven't paid attention to anything I've had to say for the past 22 years, so why would you think that I would think you're going to pay attention to what I have to say now?”
Who was Richard Cooey : In the early morning of September 1, 1986 Cooey and a friend was throwing chunks of concrete off the Stoner Street Bridge onto U.S. Interstate 77 in Akron, Ohio. One of the chunks hit an oncoming car, which was driven by University of Akron student Wendy Offredo (age 20), also in the car was another student Dawn McCreery (age 19).
Cooey and his cohorts pretended to rescue the two women, but in reality they were kidnapping the unsuspecting college students.
The men took them to a near by field and beat, stabbed, tortured and raped the women for three and a half hours they beat them to death and abandoned the bodies.
Cooey was convicted on November 14, 1986, and subsequently sentenced to death.
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You deserved to die a lot sooner. Rest in hell.
Scum like you don’t deserve to live may you rot in hell
may God have mercy on your soul for you didn’t have mercy for these innocent young ladies.
Pathetic… He had 22 years to repent… forgiveness is always possible, but the hard-hearted reject it.
This is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard. God Bless those two girls. They should be immortalized here, not this peice of shit!!!!
why do these people get to live so long on death row!? geesh! another thing why cant they die the way they killed? they should be raped and tortured the whole time. i cant believe he had the nerve to say the needle is inhumane cuz he was a fatass!! well i think raping and beating 2 innocent young ladies is F’ING inhumane!!
You people are sick. Despite what this man did he was still human.
human those two girls were human to asshole
Throwing chunks of concrete?
You were not human……you were pure evil and to bad you were ever able to draw breath. Now your where you should BE IN HELL.
i hope you are in hell you cant put into words the evil you did,you cant even call you an animal because animals arnt that evil.god bless those innocent lives you took
may your soul rest in hell.
I hope you’re burning in hell! how can anyone do those horrible things to anyone? I wish someone would have tortured you!
good riddance to bad rubbish
good job!
I hope your soul rots in hell you bastard
He’s already been rotting in the depths of hell for one year now. He was nothing but pure evil scum and I’ll bet nobody misses him. R.I.H.!
You people are about as evil as he was!
you should have been put to death the same way you helped to kill those two girls,good for nothing basterd.