Louisiana death row inmate dies of illness weeks before scheduled execution
Updated: 1:42 PM CST Feb 23, 2025
OVER ONE MONTH AGO. AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER CHECK ON OUR FIRST WARNING. WEATHER TODAY IS THE WEATHER IMPACT DAY BECAUSE IT IS A WET ONE ALL DAY. YEAH, WET AND COLD. JUST NOT A GOOD DAY TO BE OUTSIDE BY ANY STRETCH. LOTS OF PARADES CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER. SO THEY’VE BEEN POSTPONED FOR LATER ON THIS WEEK. YEAH. TODAY WOULD NOT BE A GOOD DAY TO BE STANDING WAITING FOR A PARADE TO COME. I WOULDN’T EVEN IF I HAD MY EMERGENCY RAIN PONCHO. I DON’T THINK I’D BE HAPPY. WELL, BECAUSE THEN ALL THE THROWS GET WET AND YOU JUST CAN’T HAVE A GOOD TIME, AND THEN YOU’RE COLD AND WET. SO IT’S JUST NOT VERY SMART. DECISIONS, I THINK BY MANY OF THE CREWS, FOR SURE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT WDSU FIRST WARNING RADAR. CHECK THIS OUT. EVERYONE, I THINK PRETTY MUCH IN OUR VIEWING AREA, SEEING THE RAIN RIGHT NOW. IT STARTED AS A LIGHTER RAIN AS IT OFTEN DOES, BUT NOW THE RAIN MAKING ITS WAY FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 TO 30MPH. WE GOT A BREAK ON THE NORTH SHORE MID MORNING. NOW WE’RE STARTING TO SEE THE RAIN GET HEAVIER. THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE AN ANNOYING RAIN. I THINK FOR MUCH OF THE DAY TODAY, AND I WISH IT WERE WARMER. MAYBE IT’D BE A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE. BUT HERE’S A LOOK AT THE METRO. THE YELLOW. THAT’S THE MODERATE RAIN. THE ORANGE THAT’S THE HEAVIER RAIN. THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO BE MOVING INTO MUCH OF OUR AREA. MUCH OF THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA, IN THE NEXT HOUR. PLAQUEMINES PARISH, YOU WERE DRY. NOT ANYMORE. AND YOU’RE GOING TO BE WET FOR A WHILE. HERE ARE THOSE TEMPERATURES. WHEN YOU STEP OUTSIDE. IT’S JUST NOT PLEASANT. 46 IN BOGALUSA, 46, BATON ROUGE, WITH 52 AT THE LAKEFRONT. SO IF YOU DO HAVE TO GO OUT TODAY, BIG UMBRELLA AND A JACKET, PROBABLY A VERY GOOD IDEA. 50 DEGREES OFFICIALLY AT LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ON TOP OF THAT, IT’S BREEZY WINDS FROM THE EAST AT 11MPH. DEW POINT HAS COME UP TO 47, BUT THAT TWO POINT SHOULD BE GOING DOWN AS SOME DRIER AIR WILL BE MOVING IN BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. JUST MESSY WEATHER OUT HERE, ALL ASSOCIATED WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE GULF THAT WILL PASS TO THE SOUTH OF US. OUR WINDS BECOME NORTHERLY BY LATE IN THE DAY TOMORROW, BUT THE TEMPERATURES REALLY DON’T GET A LOT COLDER. IT WILL BE A WIND SHIFT BRINGING IN DRIER AIR, AND REALLY, ONCE WE GET PAST THE RAIN TODAY, I THINK OUR FORECAST IS LOOKING PRETTY GOOD. TODAY, HOWEVER, WILL IT STOP THINGS AT THE NOON HOUR? COMPUTER MODELS SHOWING US IT’S STILL GOING TO BE WET? HOW ABOUT 3:00? IT’S STILL GOING TO BE WET FOR MANY OF US. ANOTHER INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE. SOME OF US WITH OVER THREE INCHES WHEN WE ADD IT ALL UP NOW BY 6:00 START TO SEE SOME IMPROVEMENT. EVEN THOUGH THE CLOUDS WILL BE IN PLACE. STILL SOME SHOWERS THIS EVENING, BUT THEY’RE MAINLY GOING TO BE ON THE LIGHT SIDE. HERE’S MIDNIGHT. STILL PICKING UP ON A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN. I THINK THIS MODEL MAY BE A LITTLE BIT AGGRESSIVE BECAUSE BY TOMORROW MORNING I THINK A COUPLE OF SPRINKLES ARE POSSIBLE. I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO HAVE WIDESPREAD RAIN. WE’LL PUT THE CHANCE FOR RAIN TOMORROW AT ABOUT 20 TO 30%. CLOUDS SHOULD BE DECREASING A BIT BY THE AFTERNOON, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE EXPECT. ADDITIONALLY, AS FAR AS RAIN GOES, ACCORDING TO THIS COMPUTER MODEL, AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO INCH AND A HALF. SO OBVIOUSLY THINGS ARE GOING TO BE WET FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON OR THE REST OF THIS MORNING IN THE AFTERNOON. CLOUDY, BREEZY AND RAINY. THOSE THREE WORDS SUM IT UP PERFECTLY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM. BUT WE’VE SEEN VERY, VERY LITTLE LIGHTNING. IF WE SEE ANY TODAY, IT’S MAINLY GOING TO BE CLOSE TO THE COAST. ONCE WE GET PAST TODAY, WE’RE LOOKING VERY NICE. DECREASING CLOUDS MONDAY AND BREEZY. THEN MORNING FOG TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SO THOSE ARE GOING TO BE WEATHER IMPACT DAYS. BUT THE AFTERNOONS. VERY NICE. HIGH TEMPERATURES ACTUALLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR MOST OF THE DAYS. SATURDAY HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 72. LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE A COUPLE OF SHOWERS POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. FAT TUESDAY. I’M CALLING FOR ABOUT A 20 TO 30% CHANCE FOR AN ISOLATED SHOWER, BUT COMFORTABLE TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW. THAT’S THE WAY IT LOOKS. IT’S STILL A WAYS OUT. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TWEAK THIS FORECAST, BUT THE HIGH TEMPERATURE FAT TUESD
Louisiana death row inmate dies of illness weeks before scheduled execution
Updated: 1:42 PM CST Feb 23, 2025
A death row inmate who has spent more than 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an illness. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992. Sepulvado was the first inmate scheduled to be executed after the state’s decision to resume executions after a 15-year pause. According to his attorney, Shawn Nolan, the state scheduled to execute Sepulvado on March 17 despite doctors saying he was terminally ill and recommended hospice care for him. Nolan issued a statement on Sepulvado death: “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. Such pointless cruelty in scheduling his execution in the face of all this overlooked the hard work Chris did over his decades in prison to confront the harm he had caused, to become a better person, and to devote himself to serving God and helping others. It was my honor to fight for Chris, a man who redeemed himself. May he rest in peace.”Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a statement on Sepulvado death:“Justice should have been delivered long ago for the heinous act of brutally beating then scalding to death a defenseless six year old boy. The State failed to deliver it in his lifetime but Christopher Sepulvado now faces ultimate judgment before God in the hereafter.”
A death row inmate who has spent more than 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an illness.
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992.
Sepulvado was the first inmate scheduled to be executed after the state’s decision to resume executions after a 15-year pause.
According to his attorney, Shawn Nolan, the state scheduled to execute Sepulvado on March 17 despite doctors saying he was terminally ill and recommended hospice care for him.
Nolan issued a statement on Sepulvado death:
“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. Such pointless cruelty in scheduling his execution in the face of all this overlooked the hard work Chris did over his decades in prison to confront the harm he had caused, to become a better person, and to devote himself to serving God and helping others. It was my honor to fight for Chris, a man who redeemed himself. May he rest in peace.”
Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a statement on Sepulvado death:
“Justice should have been delivered long ago for the heinous act of brutally beating then scalding to death a defenseless six year old boy. The State failed to deliver it in his lifetime but Christopher Sepulvado now faces ultimate judgment before God in the hereafter.”
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