A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned execution of an Idaho man on death row whose first lethal injection attempt was botched earlier this year.

I’m not going to rush justice in a case like this,” U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow said at a hearing Tuesday.

"Because the last reasoned state court decision — the operative filing for AEDPA purposes — was issued just a week before Creech’s scheduled execution, a stay is necessary to allow the parties to fully brief, and for this Court to fully consider, Creech’s habeas claims," Judge Snow wrote.