Emotional commutation hearing held for Idaho's longest-serving man on death row
Thomas Creech, now 73, has been on death row since 1983. His defense team is asking for life in prison without the possibility of parole, rather than death.
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Thomas Creech, now 73, has been on death row since 1983. His defense team is asking for life in prison without the possibility of parole, rather than death.
Originally published Jan. 19 by IdahoReports.
“The person I am now is not the person I was then,” death row prisoner Thomas Creech told the parole board.
BOISE — Kathy Niecko used to frequent Idaho’s death row as a health care worker at the maximum security prison, making the rounds to check on her patients. That included
So strong were the bonds that Thomas Creech developed with some state prison workers that a guard at the time even introduced him to his mother, whom Creech later married from prison.