After eight failed attempts to find the vein of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, doctors threw in the towel and his execution by lethal injection was suspended. Creech has been in prison for 50 years and was convicted of killing five people and is suspected of being the perpetrator of many other murders.
This is the latest in a series of interrupted executions in the United States, many due to the impossibility of finding a vein for prisoners to administer the lethal cocktail. In Idaho, however, the use of the firing squad has recently been approved.