Idaho's Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner's Execution Is Delayed After Failed Attempt

LOADING ERROR LOADING The longest-serving man on Idaho’s death row, Thomas Creech, evaded execution on Wednesday because executioners were unable to establish an IV for the lethal injection procedure, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections. “Given the badly botched execution attempt this morning, which proves IDOC’s inability to carry out a humane and constitutional execution, undersigned counsel preemptively seek an emergency stay of execution to prevent any further attempts today,” Creech’s attorneys said in the motion. And I don’t say that easily,” Harris told KIVI, calling it a “waste of time” and a “terrible waste of money.” Creech was previously scheduled to be executed on Nov. 8 but was granted a stay of execution as the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole considered commuting his sentence in a January hearing. In October, Deborah Czuba, with the Federal Defender Services of Idaho, slammed the state for obtaining the drugs in a rush to deliver “retribution at all costs.” “Given the shady pharmacies that the State has obtained the lethal drugs from for the past two Idaho executions, the State’s history of seeking mock death warrants without any means to carry them out, and the State’s misleading conduct around its readiness for an execution, we remain highly concerned about the measures the State resorted to this time to find a drug supplier,” Czuba wrote in a press release.