On October 15, 2024, the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) amended its execution protocol and facilities to enable staff to place a central intravenous line, if necessary, to deliver lethal injection drugs to a prisoner. IDOC now has a new execution preparation room in which venous access would be established prior to transferring the prisoner to the execution chamber. This change, and accompanying prison renovations this past summer, came after the February 28, 2024 failed execution of the state’s oldest death row prisoner, Thomas Creech, whose execution was halted after correctional staff failed to set intravenous lines after an hour of effort and eight attempts. A day after the execution protocol was modified, Idaho issued a warrant scheduling Mr. Creech’s second execution date for November 13, 2024.
“Idaho has now made itself the first state in the history of the country to try to use lethal injection a second time on the same inmate after failing the first time,” said Deborah Czuba, one of Mr. Creech’s attorneys and supervising attorney for the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Defenders of Idaho in a written statement.?“The state is sacrificing common decency and humanity in its haste for an execution. Mr. Creech’s legal team is fighting to save Mr. Creech’s life on many fronts. Mr. Creech has spent more than 50 years in prison and is now suffering from significant mental health issues because of the trauma he was subjected to when the state failed to execute him. We hope the courts will recognize the cruel and unusual level of punishment that this remorseful and harmless old man has already been through, and stop a needless execution.”?The statement also highlighted the lack of public information or official review following the first failed execution attempt and criticized the state’s plan to use “virtually the same process and team of executioners” in their second attempt. His lawyers are also challenging the second attempt to execute Mr. Creech as unconstitutional.
Thomas Eugene Creech
Thomas Eugene Creech (born September 9, 1950) is an American serial killer who was convicted of two murders committed in 1974 and sentenced to death in Idaho. The sentence was reduced two years later on appeal to life imprisonment. He was sent back to Idaho‘s death row for a 1981 murder committed while imprisoned. Creech personally confessed to a total of 42 murders in various states,[2] some of which allegedly involved the Hells Angels and the Church of Satan. Most of his additional confessions are uncorroborated, but police believe strong evidence links Creech to seven additional murder victims (in two of which he was convicted).[3] In January 2024, an investigation by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department concluded that Creech murdered Daniel A. Walker (in what was a cold case).[1]
As of 2024, Creech was the longest-serving death row inmate in the state. His execution, scheduled for February 28, 2024, resulted in a failed attempt and was cancelled. He remains on death row.[4][5] His new execution date of November 13, 2024 had been scheduled.[6]
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