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