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Thomas Creech, 73, had his execution stopped because the medical team couldn't find a vein to administer a lethal injection. Officials said they would let his death warrant expire at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. AdvertisementIdaho officials stopped the execution of a 73-year-old convicted serial killer after the medical team couldn't find his veins for a lethal injection. Creech was returned to his cell, and his death warrant was set to expire that day at 11:59 p.m., per the department. AdvertisementCreech is not the only US inmate to be saved from death row — at least temporarily — by an unsuccessful IV.
Persons: Thomas Creech, couldn't, Creech, , Josh Tewalt, Tewalt, Deborah A, Prosecutors, Jill Longhurst, Alva Campbell Organizations: Service, Security, Federal Defender Services of, Idaho Statesman, Federal Defender Services, Street Locations: Idaho, Federal Defender Services of Idaho, Ohio, California, Oregon, Ada
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The November execution of a man on Idaho’s death row was delayed on Wednesday because the state’s parole board has granted a hearing to consider changing his sentence to life in prison. An Idaho judge last week issued a death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Creech was convicted of killing two people in Valley County in 1974 and sentenced to death. Creech’s attorneys with the nonprofit Federal Defender Services of Idaho petitioned the parole board to schedule the sentence review hearing. A spokesperson for the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, which pursued Creech’s death warrant, declined to comment to the newspaper on Wednesday.
Persons: Thomas Creech, Creech, David Jensen, Christian ” Organizations: Idaho Department of Correction, Federal Defender Services of Idaho, Idaho Statesman, Office Locations: BOISE, Idaho, An Idaho, Valley County, Ada
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