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Old 29-02-2024, 03:48 PM #1
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Default USA :Thomas Creech: Idaho execution delayed after failed lethal injection

No Vein is located in his arm.

Killer of over 20

Not dead yet.



[The execution of Idaho's longest-serving
death row inmate has been delayed after
officials failed to deliver a fatal lethal injection dose.

The death sentence against serial killer
Thomas Creech, 73, was due to be carried
out in Boise on Wednesday.

"The medical team could not establish an
IV line, rendering the execution unable to
proceed," prison officials said in a statement.


The execution would have been Idaho's first in 12 years.

Idaho's botched procedure came hours before
Texas executed a double murderer who continues
to profess his innocence.

Ivan Cantu and his supporters
argued that he deserved a retrial due
to ineffective defence counsel during
his trial. His cause had garnered the
support of celebrities including
Kim Kardashian as well as
Reps Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass) and
Joaquin Castro (D-Tex).

Creech has been in prison since 1974
and was sentenced to die for the 1981
fatal beating of a fellow inmate.
He is one of the US's oldest death
row inmates.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68431330

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