Seems the medical team tried 8 times to insert the IV and failed. Any nurse can insert an IV. Just how hard is it? This creep has been on death row for 43 years. They finally get around to doing what they should have done 40 years ago and they screw it up.
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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 intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection.
Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. He was already serving a life term when he beat a fellow inmate, 22-year-old David Dale Jensen, to death in 1981 — the crime for which he was to be executed.
Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., was wheeled into the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution on a gurney at 10 a.m.
Three medical team members tried eight times to establish an IV, Corrections Director Josh Tewalt told a news conference afterward. In some cases, they couldn't access the vein, and in others they could but had concerns about vein quality. They attempted sites in his arms, legs, hands and feet. At one point, a medical team member left to gather more supplies.
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This is were a firing squad would be a viable option…..no problems with “insertion”! memtb
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It's amazing how many times I've heard about executions in various states getting botched. Either they can't do a decent injection, or the stuff they inject is too old and past its "use by" date, ( forgot what state that happened in), or any one of various other excuses for not getting the job done. Why can't they just bring in a veterinarian who routinely puts large livestock that weighs more than any human to sleep, and let the vet do his thing and be done with it.
Seems the medical team tried 8 times to insert the IV and failed. Any nurse can insert an IV. Just how hard is it? This creep has been on death row for 43 years. They finally get around to doing what they should have done 40 years ago and they screw it up.
On some people, and I'm one, it is pretty difficult. My veins have extra valves and make a twist anywhere they are close to the surface.
Even for some relatively simple surgeries, they've had to call in vascular specialists to make an IV work. Once for emergency surgery they had to surgically place an IV in my groin vein. IIRC, they had someone there the entire time it was in, to watch it
As far as I’m concerned, if they screw up your execution, you get to walk. Instant, automatic, pardon. Don’t care what you did. If the state leaves you gimped, they get to pay you for it.
May be a weird way of looking at it, but that’s how I’ve always felt.
If killing someone strapped to a table for something they did 43 years ago is that important, then take the time and care to not fug it up.
Getting within half a block of any amount of fentanyl can kill a whole ambulance crew and all the cops in the neighborhood, but we can't off one scumbag with a cocktail of specially formulated drugs- - - - -what's wrong with this picture?
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