Too Fat To Be Executed?

Ronald Post, 450 pounds, is so fat that his executioners may not be able to find a vein, and he might even break the death chamber gurney.

Post, who gained close to 200 pounds on death row, is trying to stave off execution Jan. 16 for the 1983 killing of a motel clerk during a robbery, arguing that because of his obesity, an attempt to put him to death would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

State officials say Post, 53, can be humanely executed under both Ohio’s usual method and the untested backup procedure. The warden at the prison where the death chamber is situated even tested the gurney by piling 540 pounds of weights on it for two hours.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.