Posted on 02/28/2024 12:59:20 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
State personnel failed to establish an IV line to serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech The state of Idaho was unable to execute Thomas Eugene Creech on Thursday, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S.
Medical personnel administering the lethal injection failed to establish an IV line despite trying for roughly an hour. The U.S. Supreme Court had denied all motions to block the process on Wednesday morning, allowing the execution to move forward. The death warrant is now being allowed to expire and will need to be renewed for a later attempt.
Prior to the failed execution, Creech was allowed to spend time with his wife the night before. He asked for fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and ice cream as his final meal.
The execution would have been Idaho's first instance of capital punishment in 12 years.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation last year authorizing the use of a firing squad as a method of execution if lethal injection is deemed unavailable. It is unclear whether Wednesday's failure would meet that standard.
Creech has been convicted of five murders spanning three states, and he is suspected of committing a number of others. He has been in prison since 1974.
He was originally sentenced to death for fatally shooting John Wayne Bradford and Edward Thomas Arnold, who picked him up while he was hitchhiking. That punishment, however, was changed to life in prison after the state’s sentencing law was found unconstitutional.
Then, in 1983, he was sentenced to death for the murder of fellow inmate David Dale Jensen. Jensen was 22, disabled and serving time for a car theft when Creech attacked him with a battery-filled sock on May 13, 1981.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Firing squad, nitrogen atmosphere and bring out Ol’ Sparky.
yep. Rope dance works too.
call in some folks from Texas, we are pretty good at it.
I understand that it’s different — but in countries where they stage false executions (marching some guy out to the wall in front of a firing squad) and them laugh and call it off at the last minute — but possibly repeating the act every few days, that’s considered torture, and inhumane, and against international law.
If the US is using a problematic technique which sometimes fails and they have to “try again some other day”, then they should rethink. Noose or gun. Find something that works.
Have a backup plan. A rope or some lead. Something.
I’d pull the trigger for them.....Would not think twice about it.....
Bath tub, toaster.
Works every time.
Let the victim’s families decide, if they’re still alive.
Firing squad - 100 22-caliber rifles.
This really is stupid. They wouldn’t even need to use a poison gas. Just put him in an enclosed room, fill it full of odorless helium. He wouldn’t even feel short of breath; he would pass out and die within a few minutes.
Why not use the same method he used to kill his victim? An eye for an eye is effective.
Oh for heaven’s sakes. There are plenty of ways to execute a murderer. Get it over with already.
They need more practice
I find this hard to believe.
“...Creech was allowed to spend time with his wife the night before...”
His wife?????
He’s been in prison for 50 years and he’s married or still married????????????
I am telling you, Fentanyl is the cheapest and best guarntee of execution. Just sprinkle it on the desert for his last meal, and game over man.
Solutions BUMP!
In 1973, he married 17-year-old Thomasine Loren White of Boise, Idaho, who allegedly became a participant in at least one of his murders. She was eventually moved to a psychiatric hospital in Salem, Oregon, where she subsequently committed suicide.
Did he marry again while in prison?????????????
As someone else here suggested... dip them in liquid nitrogen and then tap them with a ball peen hammer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.