He pointed out that in the United States there were five types of execution: hanging, shooting, electric chair, gas chamber and lethal injection, and now there are six. And all this “testifies to the catastrophic human rights situation in the United States,” RIA Novosti quotes the Ombudsman.
The case he discusses is the botched execution in the US state of Idaho of Thomas Creech, 73, convicted of murder. Doctors were unable to administer a lethal injection intravenously.
Lawyers have filed a motion in federal court to stop further attempts to execute him.
The criminal has been in prison for almost 50 years, initially receiving a death sentence for several murders, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. After the execution of his cellmate, he was sentenced to death, but could not be executed; The lethal injection did not produce the expected results.
And this is not the first case of a botched execution in the United States in recent years. In November 2022, Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution was stopped in Alabama after attempts to insert a catheter into his vein failed.
