Idaho takes step toward its first execution in nearly a decade. Death warrant is signed. Jacob Scholl, The Idaho Statesman May 7—For the first time in nearly a decade, Idaho might execute a man on death row. A death warrant was signed Thursday for Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., who was sentenced to die in a capital punishment case in 1986 for two murders in Idaho County. Judge Jay Gaskill, the administrative judge for the Second Judicial District, signed the death warrant. The execution is scheduled for June 2, according to a copy of the warrant obtained by the Idaho Statesman. It states that "no valid stays of execution are currently in place" for Pizzuto. With the death warrant being issued, the state has 30 days to execute him.