Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with the Idaho Capital Sun and benefited from public records grant funding through The Gumshoe Group investigative journalism initiative. BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – Last June, two days after a condemned man outlived his scheduled execution date, he made a macabre appeal to the agents tasked with guiding […]
They Are Terminally Ill. States Want To Execute Them Anyway. “I don’t understand trying to kill somebody who is already dying,” says the sister of Idaho death-row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto. Filed 6:45 p.m. 05.06.2021 Gerald Pizzuto Jr., circa 2000. Courtesy of Bruce Livingston Gerald Pizzuto Jr., circa 2000. Courtesy of Bruce Livingston The death penalty is in flux. These are the stories that you need to know about capital punishment s past, as well as its uncertain future.
Gerald Pizzuto is near death, but it’s unclear whether the cancer or the state of Idaho will get to him first.
For more than a year, the 65-year-old has been in hospice care on Idaho’s death row, suffering from advanced bladder tumors, along with Type 2 diabetes, and a variety of heart and lung diseases. According to his defense team, he’s been prescribed 42 different drugs i