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Lawyers defending Gerald Pizzuto Jr. asked a judge to delay the date until his legal challenges are complete.
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The court ruled in August that the governor has the authority to reject commutation decisions by the Commission on Pardons and Parole.
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In a rare decision last year, the Commission on Pardons and Parole supported a clemency request for Gerald Pizzuto Jr., who was on death row after being convicted of the 1985 murders of Berta and Del Herndon in an Idaho County cabin.
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Elise Quagliata has had the rare experience of truly getting to know the character she portrays in "Dead Man Walking" – Sister Helen Prejean. The nun famous for her activism for the abolition of the death penalty was portrayed, in an Oscar-winning performance, by Susan Sarandon in the film adaptation of Prejean’s memoir. And now, audiences are experiencing Prejean’s story anew with "Dead Man Walking," the opera.
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A bipartisan group of Idaho House lawmakers signed off on a bill Thursday to hide the identities of lethal injection drug suppliers.
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State officials could hide where they get lethal injection drugs from under a new bill introduced Monday.
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Idaho inmate Gerald Pizzuto’s death sentence was reduced to life in prison by a state district court judge Friday.
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The state’s parole board backed reducing a convicted killer’s death sentence to life in prison, but Gov. Brad Little immediately rejected their recommendation.
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A parole board Tuesday granted death row inmate Gerald Ross Pizzuto a clemency hearing in November, rescinding the warrant to execute Pizzuto June 2.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit aimed at postponing Idaho’s planned execution of convicted murderer Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. Defense attorneys are refiling their complaint.