Post by MXB on Oct 21, 2006 9:03:04 GMT -5
Another Victim's Family Weighs In
The mother and brother of Dawn McCreery, another murdered Ohio resident, said that this type of forgiveness was not possible. Both said they hoped Richard Cooey (one of the four death-row prisoners who filed the lethal injection lawsuit) would suffer as their loved one had the day she was raped and murdered in 1986.
Cooey, 39, is on death row in Youngstown for kidnapping, raping,
assaulting, and murdering 20-year-old Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo, 21. He has admitted to raping Offredo, but denies killing the two women, blaming his friend Clint penisens, who at 17 couldn't get the death penalty and is serving two life sentences at Warren Correctional Institution.
Dawn McCreery's brother, Robert, said he hopes Cooey is conscious during the execution process, so that he suffers. "This punishment would be fitting the crime, wouldn't it?" he said. "It is much less cruel and unusual punishment than strangulation, rape, and beating someone to death."
The father of three acknowledged that killing Cooey wouldn't bring his sister back, a young woman who was a student at the University of Akron at the time of her death. "But it's going to make me feel that justice has finally been served," he said. "They set a verdict for punishment 20 years ago that still has yet to be carried out."
Mary Ann Hackenberg, Dawn Marie's mother, said she has waited for Cooey to be executed for nearly two decades. There had already been too many delays due to the appeals process. "I'm just to the point where I want it done."
Has Cooey ever apologized and admitted guilt? "No," said Hackenberg, pointing to an interview conducted by The Toledo Blade in 2003, when Cooey was first scheduled for execution. Hackenberg recalls that the prisoner showed no remorse.
"For twenty years he has made no effort to say, `I am sorry, I was wrong.' He has no feelings."
The mother and brother of Dawn McCreery, another murdered Ohio resident, said that this type of forgiveness was not possible. Both said they hoped Richard Cooey (one of the four death-row prisoners who filed the lethal injection lawsuit) would suffer as their loved one had the day she was raped and murdered in 1986.
Cooey, 39, is on death row in Youngstown for kidnapping, raping,
assaulting, and murdering 20-year-old Dawn McCreery and Wendy Offredo, 21. He has admitted to raping Offredo, but denies killing the two women, blaming his friend Clint penisens, who at 17 couldn't get the death penalty and is serving two life sentences at Warren Correctional Institution.
Dawn McCreery's brother, Robert, said he hopes Cooey is conscious during the execution process, so that he suffers. "This punishment would be fitting the crime, wouldn't it?" he said. "It is much less cruel and unusual punishment than strangulation, rape, and beating someone to death."
The father of three acknowledged that killing Cooey wouldn't bring his sister back, a young woman who was a student at the University of Akron at the time of her death. "But it's going to make me feel that justice has finally been served," he said. "They set a verdict for punishment 20 years ago that still has yet to be carried out."
Mary Ann Hackenberg, Dawn Marie's mother, said she has waited for Cooey to be executed for nearly two decades. There had already been too many delays due to the appeals process. "I'm just to the point where I want it done."
Has Cooey ever apologized and admitted guilt? "No," said Hackenberg, pointing to an interview conducted by The Toledo Blade in 2003, when Cooey was first scheduled for execution. Hackenberg recalls that the prisoner showed no remorse.
"For twenty years he has made no effort to say, `I am sorry, I was wrong.' He has no feelings."