The execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution is shown as Security Institution Warden Randy Blades look on in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 20, 2011. An Idaho man scheduled to be executed at the end of the month is asking a federal court to put his lethal injection on hold and order a new clemency hearing because the previous one resulted in a tie. Thomas Eugene Creech is Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)

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