Idaho delays execution due to inability to secure lethal drugs
The state of Idaho has delayed the execution of an inmate because it was unable to procure the necessary lethal drugs.
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The state of Idaho has delayed the execution of an inmate because it was unable to procure the necessary lethal drugs.
A death sentence ordered more than 30 years ago is set to be carried out next month for convicted double-murderer Gerald R. Pizzuto.
In a Idaho Supreme Court opinion Tuesday, convicted murderer Gerald Pizzuto was restored his death sentence from killing two people in 1986.
Gerald Pizzuto Jr. had requested to have his sentence for killing two people in 1985 commuted to life in prison.
Gerald Pizzuto Jr., who fatally beat a man and a woman with a hammer near McCall in 1985, is dying of bladder cancer and is no longer a threat, his lawyers say.