Idaho delays execution of serial killer after failed lethal injection attempts
Thomas Creech was convicted of five murders in three states and is suspected of at least half-dozen other killings.
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Thomas Creech was convicted of five murders in three states and is suspected of at least half-dozen other killings.
Officials in Idaho on Wednesday halted the execution of death row inmate and serial killer Thomas Creech after they were unable to set an intravenous line to carry out a lethal injection, according to a news release from the state Department of Correction.
Serial killer Thomas Creech was jabbed 10 times with a needle before the execution was called off, his lawyers say.
A serial killer on death row escaped execution after officials were unable to find a vein to administer the lethal injection.
Ivan Cantu's execution by lethal injection is scheduled for Wednesday. The Texas inmate was convicted in 2001 for the killing of his cousin, James Mosqueda and his cousin's girlfriend, Amy Kitchen in,