SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS

They have filed a lawsuit saying that because Cooey is grossly overweight, his execution by lethal injection, scheduled for Oct. 14, would be difficult and that he would suffer "unnecessary pain" while the death sentence was carried out, making it unconstitutional, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported Tuesday.

The newspaper said Cooey, 41, is 5-feet, 7-inches tall and weighed 275 pounds on May 19, which was the last time he had been on the scales at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. A spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers said state officials were considering legal options.

Cooey and an accomplice were convicted of the rapes and bludgeoning slaying of two Akron, Ohio-area women college students in 1986.

 BREAKING STORIES

First military execution since '61 planned

Obese Ohio Inmate Eats Last Meal

Court upholds death penalty child rape ban

Justices won't revisit child rape decision

Child killer to be executed in Florida

Supreme Court gets new briefs on rape case

German neo-Nazis tap child abuse anger

Execution set for 1974 killing

Death-Row Inmate Medellin Doesn't Get a Reprieve From Texas Pardons Board

Ohio inmate says he's too fat to execute

Texas governor asked to halt execution

Report: Death Row Records sold for $24M

Missouri May Seek Death Penalty Against Sheley

Missouri Likely to Seek Death for Sheley

Precedent overlooked in child-rape ruling

McCain criticizes high court's rape ruling

Japanese serial killer executed

Afghan reporter appeals death sentence

Court lets prosecutor remain on `Alpha Dog' case

Suspects in Taylor murder won't face death penalty