Idaho plans to execute a 74-year-old man - the state’s long-serving death row prisoner - next month after officials botched his first execution.

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.

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

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously found that U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford’s decision not to recuse herself was “based on a clear error of law.”

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.