Idaho's attorney general has obtained a court order that requires a terminally ill death row inmate to be executed within 30 days, even though the state has no way to carry out the death sentence.
Idaho Department of Correction officials have not been able to obtain the chemicals used in lethal injection executions for several months, and two previous death warrants issued for Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. have already gone unfulfilled. Pizzuto has spent more than three decades on death row for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors.
Labrador said his office is required to obtain a new death warrant while the state works to get the necessary drugs. Pizzuto's attorneys questioned the timing and said getting a new death warrant now does not make sense.
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