Idaho issues execution warrant for inmate who survived a botched attempt

Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt in February. A judge issued a death warrant for Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday, one day after the state correction department announced renovations to its execution chamber to allow the execution team to insert catheters deep into the neck, groin, chest or arms of condemned inmates if they are unable to insert a standard peripheral intravenous line. The executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center says Idaho could be the first state to try to execute someone a second time using the same method tried during an earlier botched attempt.