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US state to execute poetic serial killer

Updated on: 26 February,2024 07:48 AM IST  |  Boise
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He is also suspected of at least a half-dozen others

US state to execute poetic serial killer

Convicted serial killer, Thomas Eugene Creech. Pic/AP

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. Reech’s killing of David Jensen, a young, disabled man who was serving time for car theft, was his last in a broad path of destruction that saw Creech convicted of five murders in three states. He is also suspected of at least a half-dozen others.


But now, decades later, Creech is mostly known inside the walls of the Idaho jail as “Tom,” a generally well-behaved old-timer with a penchant for poetry. His unsuccessful bid for clemency even found support from a former warden at the penitentiary, prison staffers who recounted how he wrote them poems of support or condolence, and the judge who sentenced Creech to death.


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