May 12, 2021 An Idaho death row inmate with terminal cancer and heart disease is asking the state to let him die naturally rather than kill him by lethal injection next month. 65-year-old Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. is scheduled for execution June 2nd for the 1985 beating deaths of 58-year-old Berta Herndon and her 37-year-old nephew, Del Herndon, at a remote Idaho County cabin. His attorneys announced this week they filed a clemency petition on his behalf to the Idaho Pardons & Parole Commission. Pizzuto has terminal bladder cancer, diabetes and heart disease and is confined to a wheelchair. He’s been on hospice care since 2019, when doctors said he likely wouldn’t survive for another year.