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NewsCooey Denies Killing Anyone
9/10/2008 1:12:02 PM | Tina Kaufmann
An Ohio inmate scheduled to be executed next month says he was involved in a crime that led to two college students deaths, but denies he was the one who beat them to death.
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Cooey says in a death row interview given to the state legislative reporters' association that both prosecutors and his public defenders have refused to investigate his claims.
Cooey has made similar statements for years. Here's a look at some of the events in the double-homicide death penalty case of Cooey:
-Sept. 1, 1986: Cooey, on leave from the U.S. Army, and accomplice Clint Dickens rape and murder University of Akron students Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20, in woods in suburban Akron.
-Dec. 9, 1986: Cooey sentenced to death following a trial before a three-judge panel.
-Dec. 11, 1989: Cooey's conviction and death sentence upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court.
-April 1, 1991: Cooey's appeal rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
-July 11, 2003: Ohio Parole Board denies Cooey's first request for clemency.
-July 24, 2003: After spending more than 24 hours in the death house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville awaiting execution, Cooey receives a last-minute reprieve from a federal judge.
-Dec. 8, 2004: Cooey files a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Columbus challenging Ohio's lethal injection protocol.
-Feb. 3, 2005: Cooey makes an unsuccessful attempt to escape from Death Row, then housed in Mansfield.
-April 21: The U.S. Supreme Court rules against Cooey in his injection lawsuit, saying he had missed a deadline.
-July 11: The Ohio Supreme Court sets an Oct. 14 execution date.
-Aug. 7: Cooey files a federal lawsuit saying his weight and a prescription drug he takes for migraine headaches could interfere with a drug used in the execution process.
-Aug. 28: Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh says she'll investigate Cooey's 2003 claim he killed a man for beating up his sister, a crime he says he was never prosecuted for.
-Sept. 2: Ohio Parole Board recommends to deny Cooey's request for clemency.
-Sept. 9: In jailhouse interview, Cooey acknowledges participating in the crimes that led to the women's slayings but says he didn't kill them.
Cooey has been on death row since 1986. He's filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop his Oct. 14 execution on the grounds that he is too fat to be executed humanely because his weight makes it difficult to access his veins.
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posted at 9/10/2008 1:25:04 PM (2395)
mrsrob1 said:
Die humanely fat ba$tard. dawn and wendy didnt die humanely now did they
posted at 9/10/2008 2:39:56 PM (2397)
jennifer3726 said:
He'll lose the excess weight if they stop feeding him from now until he's executed.
posted at 9/11/2008 2:21:43 PM (2405)
akronite51 said:He keeps kicking and screaming for his life but didn't give a damn about the 2 girls!!! Let's finish this once and for all!
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