Idaho ’s longest-serving death row inmate is pleading for another clemency hearing after the previous one ended in a tie vote , yet the state governor has already declared he has “zero intention of taking any action that would halt or delay” the execution .
Thomas Eugene Creech, 73, was sentenced to death over four decades ago after he was convicted of killing his fellow inmate, 23-year-old David Dale Jensen, by beating him to death with a sock filled with batteries and stomping on his face and neck, the Ada County Prosecutor’s office said in a news release.
Mr Creech, who was already serving four life sentences at the time, pleaded guilty to murdering Jensen.
The prosecutor’s office branded Mr Creech as a “ serial killer ”, who has had five murder convictions, one in California, one in Oregon and three in Idaho. He has also been established as the killer of an additional six victims and has also admitted to killing at least 40 people.
A state parole board voted 3-3 last month on a request sent by Mr Creech to have his sentence changed to life without parole after one of its members recused himself from the case; now Mr Creech is asking for a new hearing after it ended in a tie, according to the Associated Press .