In the USA, they could not execute a serial killer

Idaho Department of Corrections

In the United States, the serial killer Thomas Creech, sentenced to death, avoided execution because medical workers could not find a vein in him to administer a lethal injection, and the term of the death sentence issued for his execution expired.

Thomas Creech, 73, who spent half a century behind bars, was scheduled to be executed in Idaho on February 28. writes Telegraph.

At 10:00 a.m. he was tied to a table and the medical team began to put him on a drip to give him a lethal injection. They made eight attempts, but none of them were successful. At 10:58 it was announced that the execution procedure was being stopped.

“The death sentence has expired. The state will consider next steps“, said Sanda Kuzeta-Serimagich, spokeswoman for the Idaho Department of Corrections.

Krich was imprisoned in 1974. He was found guilty of five murders. The man’s first victims were two painters who picked up Creech and his hitchhiking girlfriend.

While Creech was serving a life sentence for those murders, he beat to death a 22-year-old inmate who had a disability and was serving time for carjacking.

In addition to the Idaho murders, Creech was convicted of murdering two people in California in 1974.

His lawyers filed a series of appeals against the death penalty because the verdict was handed down by a judge rather than a jury. However, hours before his scheduled execution, an attempt to have his case heard by the US Supreme Court was rejected.

Now, Creech’s legal team said they are filing a new appeal, arguing that the state of Idaho, which has not carried out an execution in 12 years, is unable to carry out the procedure humanely.

Supporters of the killer claim that he has now become a different person and seek to replace his sentence with life in prison without the right to parole.

We will remind you that earlier we wrote that the world’s first execution of a prisoner was carried out in the state of Alabama (USA) by inhaling nitrogen. Such a punishment was awarded to 58-year-old Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of a contract murder that he committed more than 30 years ago.