Monster who murdered stepson in sickening assault dies weeks earlier than he was on account of be executed

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died just one month before his scheduled excution date after he was convicted of the brutal murder of his six-year-old step-son in 1992

A man who was on death row for the horrific murder of his six-year-old stepson, died less than a month before he was due to be executed by nitrogen gas.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, spent more than three decades on Louisiana death row after he was found guilty for the 1992 murder of his stepson Wesley Allen Mercer.

The child returned home from school with dirty underwear, and his stepdad then struck the six-year-old on the head with a screwdriver and submerged him in boiling water.

Sepulvado died on 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 Corrections.

The sicko was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993. His lawyer, federal public defender Shawn Nolan, stated on Sunday that doctors recently diagnosed Sepulvado as terminally ill and suggested hospice care.

Nolan said: “Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.

“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.”

Nolan also mentioned that Sepulvado had been taken to New Orleans for surgery earlier in the week but was brought back to the prison on Friday night.

The state of Louisiana has chosen to restart capital punishment this month after a 15-year hiatus due to a lack of political enthusiasm and unavailability of lethal injection drugs.

Republican Governor Jeff Landry initiated a new execution protocol using nitrogen gas after the state’s predominantly Republican legislature broadened execution methods to include electrocution and nitrogen gas last year.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill asserted that “justice should have been delivered long ago” and the state “failed to deliver it in his lifetime.”

Sepulvado’s execution date was scheduled for March 17 using nitrogen gas

Last year, the United States saw its first execution using nitrogen gas in Alabama, which has since used this method for four executions.

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