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Idaho attempted to execute an inmate, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates, on Wednesday, but the state was unable to carry it out. Thomas Creech, 73, was convicted of five murders in three states: Idaho, Oregon and California. While serving a life sentence in an Idaho prison, Creech killed fellow inmate David Dale Jensen.
Thomas Creech’s attorneys alleged in their court filing that the execution team had “badly botched” his planned lethal injection Wednesday.
At one point, Creech looked into the room and waved his fingers.
After witnessing an execution at Angola prison in Louisiana, Jonathan Eig writes that he felt complicit in the death penalty. But recent events in Alabama and Louisiana have prompted him to reconsider.
Alabama is poised Thursday to carry out the first known execution using nitrogen gas, a new method some experts warn could cause him to experience a torturous death.