LOADING ERROR LOADINGBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled sock. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco to delay Creech’s death by lethal injection, set for Wednesday. Among people on death row around the country, just 2.1% were sentenced to death by a judge alone, they said. Creech was initially sentenced to death following his 1975 Idaho conviction, but after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that automatic death sentences were unconstitutional, it was converted to a life term.

Source: Huffington Post February 24, 2024 18:06 UTC