FEATURED POST

There's A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House

Published
Image
Buried on page 554 of the plan is a directive to execute every remaining person on federal death row — and dramatically expand the use of the death penalty. During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people on federal death row and ending a 17-year de facto federal execution moratorium.

Idaho | Death warrant issued for convicted murderer Thomas Creech

Published
The State of Idaho has issued a death warrant for the execution of convicted murderer Thomas Eugene Creech. The execution is scheduled for Nov. 8, 2023 by lethal injection.

The Idaho Department of Correction said in a news release it has secured the chemicals necessary for the lethal injection.

Creech, now 73 years old, was sentenced to death for a 1974 double murder in Valley County. That death sentence was changed to two life sentences when the state’s death penalty mandate for first degree murder was ruled unconstitutional in 1979.

While incarcerated, Creech killed a fellow inmate and was subsequently sentenced to death again. Creech also claimed that he’d murdered dozens of others.

He’s been on death row in Idaho for more than 40 years, but his execution was blocked as multiple appeals in state and federal court followed his resentencing in 1995. In February, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld previous court rulings affirming his death sentence.

According to the death warrant filed Thursday by the state, the U.S. Supreme Court this week denied to intervene in Creech’s death sentence, which his legal team had requested following the Ninth Circuit's decision.

"Given the shady pharmacies that the State has obtained the lethal drugs from for the past two Idaho executions, the State’s history of seeking mock death warrants without any means to carry them out, and the State’s misleading conduct around its readiness for an execution, we remain highly concerned about the measures the State resorted to this time to find a drug supplier," wrote Deborah Czuba, Supervising Attorney for the Capital Habeas Unit of Federal Defender Services of Idaho, in a statement.

She indicated a legal challenge over the quality of drugs the state will use in the lethal injection is likely, and they would seek clemency to commute the death sentence to life without parole.

Attempts to obtain lethal injection drugs for another death row inmate in 2022 were unsuccessful. Idaho's last execution happened in 2012.

A spokesperson for the State Department of Corrections declined to comment beyond the press release.

Source: NPR, Troy Oppie, October 12, 2023


_____________________________________________________________________

Home  |  Twitter/X  |  Facebook  |  Telegram  | Contact us






"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."

— Oscar Wilde
Location: Idaho, USA
Related content:

Most Viewed (Last 7 Days)

20 Minutes to Death: Witness to the Last Execution in France

Published
Image
The following document is a written record of convicted killer Hamida Djandoubi's last moments before he was guillotined in a Marseilles prison on September 10, 1977. This written record -- dated September 9 -- was written by a judge appointed to witness the execution. Djandoubi's execution was the last execution carried out in France before capital punishment was abolished in 1981. Then-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who had voiced his "loathing for the death penalty" before he was elected to office, flatly turned down Djandoubi's appeal for clemency and chose to let "Justice run its course", as he did on two previous instances ( Christian Ranucci , executed on July 28, 1976 and Jérôme Carrein , executed on June 23, 1977). Hamida Djandoubi , a Tunisian national, was sentenced to death for killing his former lover, Elisabeth Bousquet. He was executed in Marseilles' Baumettes prison in September 1977. The following text was writ
Read more

U.S. | I'm a Death Row Pastor. They're Just Ordinary Folks

Published
Image
In the early 1970s I was a North Carolinian, white boy from the South attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and working in East Harlem as part of a program. In my senior year, I visited men at the Bronx House of Detention. I had never been in a prison or jail, but people in East Harlem were dealing with these places and the police all the time. This experience truly turned my life around.
Read more

Iraq executes 11 people convicted of terrorism crimes

Published
Image
Iraqi courts have handed down hundreds of death and life sentences in recent years for people convicted of membership in a terrorist group. BAGHDAD – Eleven people were executed on Monday at Al-Hut prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya after they were convicted and sentenced to death of terrorism crimes, two security sources said.
Read more

North Texas jury sentences killer to death penalty for shooting Burleson woman, cop

Published
Image
A jury of 12 Johnson County residents voted Thursday to send 31-year-old Jerry Elders to death row for the murder of Robin Waddell, agreeing with prosecutors who requested the death penalty. The defense argued for life in prison without parole, saying Thursday morning that Elders’ actions came after a lifetime of drug addiction and going in and out of jails and prisons, being kicked out of his family home as a teenager and not receiving support from family members.
Read more

Alabama SC approves second nitrogen gas execution

Published
Image
The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method. Justices granted Attorney General Steve Marshall’s request for an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who survived a 2022 lethal injection attempt.
Read more

Alabama approves second nitrogen hypoxia execution

Published
Image
The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Alan Eugene Miller, setting the stage for the state to have at least four executions this year. Miller's execution would be the second carried out using nitrogen gas, the Alabama Attorney General’s office says. Miller, now 59, was convicted of killing three people during a pair of 1999 workplace shootings in suburban Birmingham. He was living in Autauga County at the time.
Read more

Arkansas Supreme Court Decision Allows New DNA Testing in Case of the ​“West Memphis Three,” Convicted of Killing Three Children in 1993

Published
Image
On April 18, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court decided 4-3 to reverse a 2022 lower court decision and allow genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the 1993 killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men convicted in 1994 for the killings were released in 2011 after taking an Alford plea, in which they maintained their innocence but plead guilty to the crime, in exchange for 18 years’ time served and 10 years of a suspended sentence. 
Read more