Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date.

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

Days before his execution warrant was signed, doctors had recommended Sepulvado enter hospice care, his attorneys said. He was hospitalized last week in New Orleans, they said, and returned Friday ...

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Louisiana’s first inmate scheduled for execution in the past 15 years has died of illness and natural causes, less than a month ahead of his scheduled death, his attorney ...

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. Christopher ...

(Photo credit: Jarvis DeBerry/Louisiana Illuminator) Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died overnight at Louisiana ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) ...

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