A death row inmate has died just one month before his execution date for the brutal murder of his six-year-old stepson.
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die for his crimes on March 17 but passed away from “natural causes” on Sunday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
In 1992, Sepulvado brutally beat Wesley Allen Mercer, 6, with the handle of a screwdriver before throwing him in a tub of scalding hot water.
“Medical examinations showed that 58% of the boy’s body was covered in second-degree burns while his scalp separated from his skull due to hemorrhaging and bleeding,” according to a report from the Times-Picayune. “Sepulvado admitted at trial that he beat his stepson with a screwdriver, but said the boy accidentally fell into the tub. Mercer’s mother, Yvonne Mercer Sepulvado, was also convicted of manslaughter in the case.”
Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement that Sepulvado should have been executed long ago but that the state failed.
“Justice should have been delivered long ago for the heinous act of brutally beating then scalding to death a defenseless six year old boy,” Murrill said.
Murrill continued, “The State failed to deliver it in his lifetime but Christopher Sepulvado now faces ultimate judgment before God in the hereafter.”
An attorney representing the murderer claimed that Sepulvado should have been spared because he was old.
“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Sepulvado, said in a statement provided to the Times-Picayune. “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.”
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