I've heard of a lot of ways to avoid the death penalty before, some of them quite creative, but this one takes the cake. Apparently an Ohio death row inmate might be able to get off death row to a life imprisonment sentence because
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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... instead he would require an untested procedure injecting the drugs directly into muscle, the process could require multiple doses over several hours or even days and result in a grueling and painful end constituting cruel and unusual punishment
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Queue up the fat jokes.
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