They tried to give him a lethal injection eight times

execution through lethal injection of one serial killer convicted, scheduled in state idahoOfficials of the local prison system reported that, in the northwest of the United States, this Wednesday the condemned man remained in his cell after it was suspended by a medical team after it could not be carried out within the legal period. Came back. it was after this Eight unsuccessful attempts to find the vein,

Thomas CreechThe 73-year-old was scheduled to be executed Wednesday morning, but the execution was canceled an hour later, the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) said in a note.

“After consultation with Chief Josh Tewalt, it was determined that the medical team could not establish an intravenous line, which would have made the execution impossible and would have resulted in the death penalty,” IDOC said in a statement.

He concluded, “The State of Idaho will consider next steps.”

According to news agency AFP, it was decided that Creech was sent back to his cell.

Josh Tewalt, director of the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC), said the execution was carried out Canceled after eight attempts failed to place an intravenous line in hands and feet By Creech.

“We have no information about a timeline or next steps” for a new execution attempt, Tewalt told reporters at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, south of the capital, Boise.

Reporter Brenda Rodriguez of local television station KTVB said Creech did not appear to be in severe pain, although at one point she commented “His leg hurt a little.”, “When the execution stopped, he was just looking up,” said Rodriguez, a journalist authorized to attend. execution witness, He added, “They also felt like they were almost relieved.”

The last botched execution in the United States was that of convicted murderer Kenneth Smith by lethal injection in Alabama in November 2022.

Smith was eventually executed in January this year, the first execution carried out with nitrogen gas in the country, a process that was highly questioned and discouraged by doctors and magistrates who believed it could cause unnecessary suffering due to suffocation. .

This method involves depriving the prisoner of oxygen and making him breathe only nitrogen. This prevents the brain and other tissues from receiving oxygen, leading to death.

He is bald on the top of his head, but has white hair on the sides. His goatee-style beard abuts the face of Thomas Creech, who is identified number 14,984 In the Idaho prison where as of this Wednesday he was awaiting execution by lethal injection.

Now, after eight failed attempts, he waits in his cell to see what happens. next steps State officials take decisions.

Creech, 73, is the oldest inmate in the jail “death row”Because it is said to be the last pavilion they occupy in the United States before being hanged.

does half a century behind bars After being accused of murdering two people in 1974. He was sentenced to death in that case, but by a decision of the United States Supreme Court, his sentence was reduced to life.

However in that test refused to kill Edward T. Arnold, 34, and John W. Bradford, 40, Confessed to killing 42 other people, According to profiles published by the local press, he later said there were actually 26, although even his lawyers do not believe him. He later admitted that he was trapped in his own lies. you don’t know the exact number Of their fatal victims.

In 1982, he told the AP that 11 men raped his wife before throwing her from the second floor and, although his wife survived, Creech said it caused him to seek revenge on his attackers.

As he himself revealed, he murdered 9 of them,

He even told the Wall Street Journal that some of the crimes he committed were under the influence of amphetamines and other drugs. In 1981, when he was 30, Another prisoner murdered in jail Socks filled with batteries, maximum protection against blows and blows to the head and neck.

While waiting to be executed this Wednesday, the AP agency detailed that, already on the stretcher, with his hands and legs tied, he kept looking at his relatives and even saying to someone that “I love you.”

One prosecutor went so far as to deny that Creech was “attractive”. Born in Ohio, he has followers who claim he has “changed.” He married a prison officer’s mother and says he liked writing poetry.