A day after Idaho prison’s system advised that it is again ready to perform a lethal injection, an Ada County judge issued the latest death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest-serving death row prisoner,

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

A man who survived the state's attempt to execute him earlier this year has another date with the death chamber.

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.

Injecting a central venous line has long been a backup plan under the state's official execution policy, but it has never been used because prison officials said the execution chamber was not designed

The new execution preparation room in Idaho allows medical team to have an alternative method to administer lethal injection chemicals.