Thomas Creech has been in prison for half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more.

Thomas Eugene Creech, a serial killer on death row in Idaho, was granted a stay in execution months after a first execution attempt by lethal injection failed.

A federal judge granted Idaho serial killer Thomas Creech a stay of execution just one week before he was scheduled to be put to death, months after he survived a botched execution.

Thomas Creech wants to challenge the county’s claim he killed a man in 1974. That slaying was noted in a past clemency hearing.