allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squadis headed to the governor's desk after passing the Legislature on Monday with a veto-proof majority. Firing squads will be used only if the ...
“I don’t feel, as the director of the Idaho Department of Correction, the compulsion to ask my staff to do that.” — Jeff Tewalt. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is poised to allow firing ...
For the first time in state history, Idaho prison officials on Wednesday were unable to successfully carry out a lethal injection when members of the execution team could not locate a suitable ...
Immediately following the Idaho prison system’s failure Wednesday to execute the state’s longest-serving death row prisoner by lethal injection, his attorneys secured a stay of execution from ...
Thomas Eugene Creech’s new execution date has not been set Thomas Eugene Creech was set to be the third death row inmate ...
KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an ...
Before Idaho's last execution, in 2012, Tewalt — who was not yet the corrections department director — and a colleague flew to Tacoma, Washington, with more than $15,000 in cash to buy the ...
For the first time in state history, Idaho prison officials on Wednesday were unable to successfully carry out a lethal injection when members of the execution team could not locate a suitable vein to ...
KUNA, Idaho — (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and ...