Louisiana man on death row dies weeks before March execution date

Louisiana man who spent over 30 years on death row dies weeks before March execution date

The man was convicted of hitting his 6-year-old stepson with a screwdriver and immersing him in hot water after he had come home from school with soiled underwear.

One 81-year-old prisoner, sentenced to death in Louisiana, died last Saturday, 22 February, for natural causes, just one week before the date set for his execution. Cristopher Sepulved, sentenced for the murder of his stepchild in 1992, was in a delicate state of health and had been hospitalized due to multiple chronic conditions.

He died before Louisiana could execute him, and he might not be the last

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in March. His death by natural causes compels America to grapple with the graying of its death row population.

Louisiana death row inmate dies weeks before scheduled execution

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992.

81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution

He died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what would have been one of the first two executions in 15 years as the state shifts its posture on capital punishment.

Louisiana man on death row dies weeks before March execution date New Orleans CityBusiness

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, “from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions,” according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Correction…