An Idaho judge has scheduled the execution of the state's longest-serving death row inmate following a botched attempt to administer his sentence earlier this year.

Prisoner Thomas Creech, 74, has argued that a repeat execution attempt would violate his constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

Idaho says it will try again to execute prisoner who survived first botched attempt - The 74-year-old is the state’s longest-serving death row inmate

Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state's longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt in February.

If the scheduled execution moves forward, it will be Idaho’s fifth such effort since capital punishment resumed in 1976. Keith Eugene Wells was executed by lethal injection in 1994 after giving up his appeals and asking to be put to death. Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed in 2011, and Richard Albert Leavitt was executed in 2012.

Idaho will begin using central venous lines to execute prisoners by lethal injection if attempts to insert standard IV lines fail

These changes enhance the state’s ability to carry out an execution ... by ensuring we have the infrastructure in place to establish IV access,” said Josh Tewalt, director of the state prison system.