Execution of Creech failed after medical team encounters “vein access issues”

The cost of his incarceration has already impoverished many people over time, what's a few more.

No death penalty, no justice, no closure.

"Justice delayed is justice denied", for everyone.

Actually, no.

The cost of litigating a death penalty case over 50 years cost FAR more than incarerating him for 50 years.

Executions aren't justice, they are revenge.

And inevitably, they will execute an innocent person. In fact, they probably already have.

 
Actually, no.

The cost of litigating a death penalty case over 50 years cost FAR more than incarerating him for 50 years.

Executions aren't justice, they are revenge.

And inevitably, they will execute an innocent person. In fact, they probably already have.

That makes my case. Endless appeals enrich lawyers at the expense of the public. And, what's wrong with a little revenge?
 
So, a serial killer who has been incarcerated since 1974..who was sentenced to death, had that sentence commuted to Life..killed his cellmate..sentenced to death again--was supposed to be put to death today..but they couldn't find a good vein, so they canceled the execution?
What a strange world we live in.


Thomas Creech is an infamous serial killer who was imprisoned in 1974 and is linked to at least 11 murders but claims dozens more. He claimed to have killed as many as 50 people, but many of his confessions were made under the influence of a now discredited “truth serum” drug, according to CBS News.
Initially, Creech was sentenced to death, but then the U.S. Supreme Court barred automatic death sentences in 1976, which caused his sentence to be converted to life in prison. The life sentence changed back to a death sentence when he killed another inmate, 23-year-old David Jenson in 1981 and was sentenced by an Ada County judge in 1983.

On the morning of February 28, 2024, Thomas Creech was stuck with an IV multiple times; after 45 minutes and running out of medical supplies, it was decided that the execution would be cancelled.
“The team attempted eight times through multiple limbs and appendages to establish IV access, consist with IDOC policy,” said the Director of the Idaho Department of Corrections, Josh Tewalt.
After talks with the medical team, Director Tewalt said that there were vein access issues and for the veins that were accessible, the quality was not good enough for an IV.
“Mr. Creech, at this time is back in his cell in F-Block. We are planning to allow the death warrant to expire because we don’t anticipate a status in change of circumstances that will allow us to continue with the execution today,” said Tewalt.
According to some of the witnesses in the execution chamber, Creech was strapped down to a table during the execution process.
“They tried the right arm first, they tried the hand, they tried the left arm, both sides and then they decided they needed to move to his legs,” said Rebecca Boone from the Associated Press.
Rebecca Boone, reported that the medical team used multiple numbing agents while attempting to establish an IV, and during the process, Creech was waving and mouthing words to the other witness room.

“When the warden announced that the execution would be halted, Mr. Creech looked at the people in the separate room, his witness, and waved at them again and sort of shook his head,” said Boone.
The guillotine is probably the most humane of all and free from technical glitches.
 
Appeals are necessary to keep mistakes from happening.

Revenge isn't justice.
Death penalty appeals should go to the head of the docket and be expedited.
"Revenge" isn't codified in the criminal justice system that I know of.
 
193 people have been exonerated and released from death row.

20 people have been executed, even though there was evidence they were innocent.

Time to get rid of this barbaric practice.
Life in prison is barbaric.

The Biblical principle pertaining to falsely accusing someone by the prosecutors would go a long way to solve wrongful imprisonment and the death penalty. Of course, the state can't legally use Biblical principles. :(

18 "The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,
19 then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.
20 The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you."
 
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Life in prison is barbaric.
Only because of the other people in there. We should probably work on that, too.


The Biblical principle pertaining to falsely accusing someone by the prosecutors would go a long way to solve wrongful imprisonment and the death penalty. Of course, the state can't legally use Biblical principles.
The bible thought you should investigate murder by sacrificing a cow and saying, "not our fault."

So leaving that aside, most accusations aren't false in so much as they are MISTAKES.

For instance, the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. He was accused of burning his house down and killing his three daughters. In reality, the science that found "Arson" was severely flawed. Witnesses make mistakes. Police are sure about a suspect and don't investigate other leads.
 
Only because of the other people in there. We should probably work on that, too.



The bible thought you should investigate murder by sacrificing a cow and saying, "not our fault."

So leaving that aside, most accusations aren't false in so much as they are MISTAKES.

For instance, the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. He was accused of burning his house down and killing his three daughters. In reality, the science that found "Arson" was severely flawed. Witnesses make mistakes. Police are sure about a suspect and don't investigate other leads.
Execution by robot firing an AR-15. It's over in a few seconds, cheap and effective.
 
That used to happen in rare instances. With criminal forensics and DNA as advanced as it is now, I don't see that as an issue. R2D2 with an AR-15. No dog and pony show, just get it done.

Rare instances?

There are 22 cases where it is believed the wrong person was executed.
there were 195 cases where someone was released from Death Row because they were exonerated by evidence.

DNA is not a magic bullet.

DNA Labs make mistakes.
Some cases don't have DNA.
 
193 people have been exonerated and released from death row.

20 people have been executed, even though there was evidence they were innocent.

Time to get rid of this barbaric practice.

hogwash. No one is on death row as a first time innocent church-going family man. If they didn’t do the death row crime (technically or other BS) rest assured they did ten others “not caught” for prior to death row mixup case.

you’re so full of it your teeth float.
 
hogwash. No one is on death row as a first time innocent church-going family man. If they didn’t do the death row crime (technically or other BS) rest assured they did ten others “not caught” for prior to death row mixup case.

you’re so full of it your teeth float.

"Well, he probably did something" isn't a legal theory.

Let's take Cameron Todd Willingham. He had no criminal record. Convicted on the basis of faulty arson investigation and a drugged out jail informant who would have testified he saw Bigfoot set the fire.


 

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