Earlier this month, an Idaho federal judge ruled in favor of a death-row inmate who claims the state is violating his Eighth Amendment rights by continuing to schedule his execution while knowing it lacks the means to actually kill him.
According to the Idaho Statesman, Idaho has scheduled the execution of Gerald Pizzuto five times since his conviction in 1986 for the murders of Berta and Del Herndon. The state has even obtained three separate death warrants since 2021, despite lacking the lethal injection drugs required to kill him. As a result, Pizzuto says he has experienced "psychological torture."
