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.

Thomas Creech, 74, has argued that a repeat effort to give him a lethal injection would violate his constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

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.

Correction officials in Idaho served death row inmate Thomas Creech on Wednesday with a death warrant scheduling his execution for Nov. 13, the Idaho Department of Correction announced in a news release on Wednesday.

Idaho's longest death row inmate is set to be executed next month. A judge issued a death warrant for Thomas Eugene Creech, who has been on death row since 1981, one day after prison officials announced that it had renovated its execution chamber.

Idaho has issued a new death warrant for Thomas Creech following the failed execution in February of this year.The death warrant issued on Wednesday morning is