A murderer on death row in Ohio has come up with a novel way to try and escape his execution. He’s become a massive fat bastard.
Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago, weighs 34 stone and is due to die by lethal injection.
But because of his fat bastardness, and the various ailments related with being an elephant, the injection could lead to a “torturous and lingering death”. That means his execution could be put off indefinitely. And they say being massively obese is bad for your health. Clearly these so-called health experts don’t know what they’re talking about.
Court documents submitted by his lawyers said vein access, scar tissue, and other medical problems raise the likelihood that his executioners would encounter severe problems.
It’s also claimed he is so big that the execution gurney might not hold him.
“Indeed, given his unique physical and medical condition there is a substantial risk that any attempt to execute him will result in serious physical and psychological pain to him, as well as an execution involving a torturous and lingering death,” court papers said.
The 53-year-old is set to die on January 16 for the 1983 shooting death of Helen Vantz in the town of Elyria.
He has tried losing weight, but knee and back problems have made it difficult to exercise, his lawyers wrote.
But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows for the clinically depressed murderer. Apparently an 18-stone man tried to get off death row with a similar argument in 2008. He was executed later that year.
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