http://www.newsvine.com/ronald-postNewsvine - ronald-posten-usCopyright 2013Thu, 6 Dec 2012 21:23:35 +0000Sat, 25 May 2013 05:32:06 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/05/15706181-condemned-obese-ohio-killer-asks-board-for-mercyhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/05/15706181-condemned-obese-ohio-killer-asks-board-for-mercyusdeathdeath-penaltypenaltyinmateobeseus-newsparole-boardronald-postWed, 5 Dec 2012 22:20:49 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows 540 pounds of weights placed on the execution table at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio to test the table's load bearing. Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post, scheduled for execution Jan. 16, 2013, is arguing that, at 450 pounds, can not be humanely executed under both the state's usual method and the untested backup procedure. (AP Photo/Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows death row inmate Ronald Post. Post, 53, is scheduled to be executed Jan. 16, 2013, for the 1983 shooting death of a hotel desk clerk. Post is trying to stave off execution, arguing that because of his obesity, an attempt to put him to death would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)</p><p>FILE - In this Nov. 2005 file photo, public information director Larry Greene is shown in the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Warden Donald Morgan says the state's execution table can easily hold Ronald Post, scheduled to be executed in January 2013, who has argued arguing that because of his obesity, an attempt to put him to death would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)</p><p>Left to right, William Vantz, the son of murder victim Helen Vantz; Mary Cheriki, Helen Vantz' niece; and Michael Vantz, another son of Helen Vantz, listen to arguments at a clemency hearing for Ronald Post, Helen Vantz' killer, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at the Ohio Parole Board in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)</p>