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Update: Obese Death Row Inmate Granted Clemency

December 18, 2012 · 0 comments

Update: Obese Death Row Inmate Granted Clemency We posted previously about the plight of death row inmate Ronald Post.  He and his lawyers were arguing that he should not be executed due to his obesity.  He weighs 480 pounds and his plight to have weight loss surgery was denied..  You

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Death Row Inmate: I am too obese to execute!

September 26, 2012 · 0 comments

  Death Row inmate, Ronald Post, 53, who is 6 feet 3 and weighs about 480 pounds, is due to be executed Jan. 16, 2013. He and his team of lawyers in Ohio claim that his body fat would make it too difficult to find a vein for the lethal