AN inmate whose 204-kilogram weight became an issue in his death penalty case has died seven months after being granted clemency.
Ronald Post died on Thursday morning at a prison hospital where he'd been treated on and off since 2011, a state prisons spokeswoman said on Friday. He was a week shy of his 54th birthday.
Post was sentenced to death for killing Elyria motel clerk Helen Vantz on December 15, 1983.
His lawyers sought mercy for Post ahead of his January 16 execution date on the grounds that he was so obese that he could not be executed humanely.
Republican Governor John Kasich granted Post clemency in December citing poor legal representation, not his weight.
Spokeswoman Ricky Seyfang said the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction classified the death as "expected." She said privacy laws prevented her from divulging whether Post's weight was a factor in his death.
Post had argued in federal court that executing him would amount to cruel and unusual punishment. His lawyers said he would suffer "a torturous and lingering death" as executioners tried to find a vein or use a backup method where lethal drugs are injected directly into muscle.
Kasich commuted Post's sentence to life with no chance of parole.
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