Entries tagged with “Gerald Pizzuto Jr.”
Executions
Jul 22, 2026
Idaho Death-Sentenced Prisoners Challenge “Arbitrary” and “Capricious” Firing Squad Protocol
In March, the Idaho legislature passed a law exempting execution procedures from administrative oversight requirements — seemingly designed to undermine a pending lawsuit filed by death-sentenced prisoner Gerald Pizzuto. After the firing squad took effect as Idaho’s primary execution method on July 1, Mr. Pizzuto, alongside fellow prisoner Thomas Creech, again sued the state on July 6 for alleged administrative violations. Mr. Pizzuto initially sued the state in 2024 based on a lethal injection…
May 15, 2025
$200,000 Spent on Lethal Injection Drugs in Idaho Since 2023 Now Unusable
The Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) has admitted to spending $200,000 on lethal injection execution drugs since 2023, all of which have since expired without use. Josh Tewalt, the former director of IDOC said in recent court filings that the drugs in IDOC’s possession expired because of repeated delays associated with scheduling an execution. Sanda Kuzeta-Cerimagic, an IDOC spokesperson, told the Idaho Statesman that the department does not currently have lethal injection drugs in its…
Executions
Jun 06, 2024
Idaho: New Death Sentence, Updates on Executions, and Lethal Injection Drug Purchase
On June 1, 2024, an Idaho jury sentenced Chad Daybell to death for the 2019 murders of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children. Mr. Daybell pleaded not guilty to multiple first-degree murder, fraud, and conspiracy charges, but after being found guilty, he chose to waive his right to present mitigating evidence during his sentencing hearing. With this decision, Mr. Daybell declined the opportunity to provide the jury with reasons why he should not be sentenced to death.
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,Aug 16, 2023
Judge Orders Hearing for Idaho Prisoner Who Faced 5 Execution Dates, Claims of Repeated ‘Psychological Torture’
Idaho U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has ruled in favor of death row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto, indefinitely pausing his March 2023 execution date, and granting him a hearing in his claim that the state of Idaho violates his Constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment by repeatedly scheduling execution dates while knowing the state does not have the means to carry it out. “As Pizzuto describes it,” Judge Winmill wrote, “defendants’ repeated rescheduling of his execution is like…
Executions
Dec 19, 2022
Mississippi Executes Thomas Loden, As John Hanson, Gerald Pizzuto Death Warrants Expire
The three final executions scheduled in 2022 highlighted broader trends in the year’s executions — the execution of vulnerable defendants, unavailability of lethal-injection drugs, and the scheduling of executions without regard for the ability to actually carry them out. Mississippi executed Thomas “Eddie” Loden Jr. (pictured) on December 14, the 18th execution of the year, while two executions set for December 15 — John Hanson’s in Oklahoma and Gerald Pizzuto Jr.’s in Idaho — did not take…