A demise row inmate has died only one month earlier than his execution date for the brutal homicide of his six-year-old stepson.
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die for his crimes on March 17 however handed away from “pure causes” on Sunday on the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
In 1992, Sepulvado brutally beat Wesley Allen Mercer, 6, with the deal with of a screwdriver earlier than throwing him in a bath of scalding scorching water.
“Medical examinations confirmed that 58% of the boy’s physique was coated in second-degree burns whereas his scalp separated from his cranium as a consequence of hemorrhaging and bleeding,” in accordance with a report from the Times-Picayune. “Sepulvado admitted at trial that he beat his stepson with a screwdriver, however mentioned the boy unintentionally fell into the bathtub. Mercer’s mom, Yvonne Mercer Sepulvado, was additionally convicted of manslaughter within the case.”
Legal professional Basic Liz Murrill mentioned in a press release that Sepulvado ought to have been executed way back however that the state failed.
“Justice ought to have been delivered way back for the heinous act of brutally beating then scalding to demise a defenseless six 12 months outdated boy,” Murrill mentioned.
Murrill continued, “The State did not ship it in his lifetime however Christopher Sepulvado now faces final judgment earlier than God within the hereafter.”
An lawyer representing the assassin claimed that Sepulvado ought to have been spared as a result of he was outdated.
“Christopher Sepulvado’s demise in a single day within the jail infirmary is a tragic touch upon the state of the demise penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an lawyer for Sepulvado, mentioned in a press release offered to the Occasions-Picayune. “The concept that the state was planning to strap this tiny, frail, dying outdated man to a chair and drive him to breathe poisonous gasoline into his failing lungs is solely barbaric.”
