Idaho’s Death Penalty Dilemma: Executions by Shooting

2023-03-21 07:00:00

In fact, death sentences cannot currently be carried out in Idaho because the ingredients for the lethal injection are scarce. Now convicts are to be executed by shooting.

The execution cell in the Idaho maximum security prison. Recording from 2011.

Jessie L. Bonner/AP

Gerald Pizzuto has been on death row at Idaho’s maximum security facility for almost four decades. He was convicted in May 1986 of killing two people in an armed robbery. At the beginning of March, his execution date was postponed for the second time american media to report. Authorities can’t find the drug cocktail needed for the deadly lethal injection.

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