They tried for almost an hour to insert the lethal injection needle into the condemned man, who was tied to the couch in the death room, but in the end, Idaho prison authorities had to postpone the execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, convicted of five murders. suspend.
“The medical team was unable to establish intravenous access, making it impossible to proceed with the execution,” the Idaho Department of Corrections spokeswoman said, explaining that the execution order applies to Creech, who is 73 and sentenced to death a murder from 1981, has now expired. Creech's execution was to have been Idaho's first in more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the condemned man's last-minute appeal.
Creeech's lawyers said he tried 10 times to stick the fatal hypodermic needle into both of the convict's arms and legs. “We are angry, but not surprised. This is what happens when unknown people, whose preparation is unknown, are entrusted with carrying out executions,” they said, denouncing the fact that prison authorities had kept the crimes in complete “secrecy,” the execution and also the type of drugs used.