Louisiana man in Death Row dies weeks before March

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Angola, La. (AP) – A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years in Louisiana in Louisiana to meet his stepson, died days after a march date for his execution by nitrogen gas.

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The 81-year-old Christopher Sepulvado died on Saturday in the state of Louisiana in Angola, Louisiana, “for natural reasons as a result of complications that result from his existing diseases,” said the Ministry of Public Security and Corrections in Louisiana.

Sepulvado was charged with the murder of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992 after the boy came home from school with dirty underwear. Sepulvado was accused of having hit him on the head with a screwdriver and immersing it in the scalding of water. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993.

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His lawyer, the federal government's public defense lawyer, Shawn Nolan, said in a statement on Sunday that the doctors recently found that sepulvado was steeped and the recommended hospice care was recommended. Nolan described the “important” physical and cognitive decline in his client in recent years.

“Christopher Sepulvado's death overnight in the infirmary in prison is a sad commentary on the condition of the death penalty in Louisiana,” said Nolan. “The idea that the state is planning to die this tiny, frail, dying old man in a chair and force him to breathe toxic gas into its failing lungs is simply barbaric.”

According to Nolan, Sepulvado was sent to New Orleans for the operation at the beginning of the week, but was returned to prison on Friday evening.

The Louisiana officials decided at the beginning of this month after a 15 -year break, which of a lack of political interest and the inability to secure legal injection drugs to take up the death judgmenturates. Republican governor Jeff Landry urged to continue a new nitrogen gas execution protocol after the legislator dominated by the state last year expanded the execution methods of the death line with electrocohol and nitrogen gas.

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Louisiana, Liz Murrill, said in an explanation that “justice should have been delivered a long time” and Louisiana “could not deliver” in his life “.

Sepulvado was planned for March 17th. Another man, Jessie Hoffman, was convicted of the first degree murder in 1996 and punished on March 18 to execute punishment. A federal judge was reopened on Friday after being released in 2022 because the state had not planned any executions.

The first execution of the country with nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now carried out four people with the method.

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