{"id":8442,"date":"2025-02-24T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/louisianas-oldest-death-row-inmate-dies-less-than-month-before-execution-date\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:24:51","slug":"louisianas-oldest-death-row-inmate-dies-less-than-month-before-execution-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/louisianas-oldest-death-row-inmate-dies-less-than-month-before-execution-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana&#8217;s oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, &#8220;from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions,&#8221; according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>He was the oldest of the 57 inmates on death row as the state weighed resuming executions after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/state\/louisiana-resumes-executions-after-15-year-pause\/289-8e1e6e3b-8fb8-4c2c-82a7-171ab570a155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15-year pause<\/a>, CBS affiliate WWL-TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/crime\/louisiana-christopher-sepulvado-death-row-inmate-dies-prison-system\/289-93b81edb-a575-449f-a3e2-74e93d7c17e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sepulvado was charged with the 1992 killing of his 6-year-old stepson after the boy came home from school with soiled underwear. Sepulvado was accused of hitting him on the head with a screwdriver and immersing him in scalding water. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney, federal public defender Shawn Nolan, said in a statement Sunday that doctors recently determined Sepulvado was terminally ill and recommended hospice care. Nolan described his client&#8217;s &#8220;significant&#8221; physical and cognitive decline in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christopher Sepulvado&#8217;s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana,&#8221; Nolan said. &#8220;The idea that the state was planning to strap this tiny, frail, dying old man to a chair and force him to breathe toxic gas into his failing lungs is simply barbaric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Nolan, Sepulvado had been sent to New Orleans for surgery earlier in the week but was returned to the prison Friday night. According to WWL-TV, Sepulvado&#8217;s health had sharply declined, and COPD and gangrene led to a recent leg amputation.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana officials decided to resume carrying out death sentences earlier this month after a 15 year pause driven by a lack of political interest and the inability to secure legal injection drugs. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry pushed to proceed with a new nitrogen gas execution protocol after the state&#8217;s GOP-dominated Legislature last year expanded death row execution methods to include electrocution and nitrogen gas.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement that &#8220;justice should have been delivered long ago for the heinous act of brutally beating then scalding to death a defenseless six-year-old boy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Louisiana Nitrogen Death Penalty \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/24\/0b432397-c217-4fdc-a9c4-46cf348e3fec\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/2d9cc555fa01087121a3419b42be6cba\/ap25053002963077.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/24\/0b432397-c217-4fdc-a9c4-46cf348e3fec\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/9ffe0f1ea4bc7be5128351a5484719d3\/ap25053002963077.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Judi Bottoni \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Murrill added that Louisiana failed to deliver justice in his lifetime &#8220;but Christopher Sepulvado now faces ultimate judgment before God in the hereafter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sepulvado&#8217;s execution was scheduled for March 17. Another man, Jessie Hoffman, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and slated for execution on March 18. Hoffman initially challenged Louisiana&#8217;s lethal injection protocol in 2012 on the grounds that the method was cruel and unusual punishment. A federal judge on Friday reopened that lawsuit after it was dismissed in 2022 because the state had no executions planned.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-alan-eugene-miller-secrecy-corrections-department\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alabama<\/a><\/span>, which has now <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/demetrius-frazier-alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">executed four people<\/a><\/span> using the method.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async 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