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Archive Home > 2012 > December > 06 > 450-pound Ohio killer fights execution by lethal injection

450-pound Ohio killer fights execution by lethal injection

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins / The Bulletin
December 6, 2012

COLUMBUS, Ohio — At about 450 pounds, Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post is so fat that his executioners won’t be able to find veins in his arms or legs for the lethal injection, and he might even break the death chamber gurney, his lawyers say.

If the state is forced to use a....

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