Idaho Is Set to Execute a Long-Time Death Row Inmate, a Serial Killer With a Penchant for Poetry

Idaho Is Set to Execute a Long-Time Death Row Inmate, a Serial Killer With a Penchant for Poetry
Thomas Eugene Creech on Jan. 9, 2009. Idaho Department of Correction via AP
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BOISE, Idaho—For nearly 50 years, Idaho’s prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments.

This Wednesday, some of Idaho’s prison staffers will be asked to kill him. Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed by lethal injection for killing a fellow prisoner with a battery-filled sock in 1981.