Angola, Los Angeles – ultimately a sick man spent more than 30 years in a row in Louisiana for killing his wife A date has been scheduled in March To execute it before Nitrogen.
Christopher Sebulfado, 81, died on Saturday in Louisiana Prison in Angola, Louisiana, “one of the natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre -existing medical conditions,” according to the General Safety Department and Corrections in Louisiana.
Sepulvado was charged with the 1992 killing of his 6 -year -old wife after the boy returned home from school with dirty underwear. Sepulvado was accused of hitting him on the head with the screwdriver and flooding it in Scalding water. He was convicted of death and sentenced to death in 1993.
His lawyer, federal defender Sean Nolan, said in a statement on Sunday that the doctors recently decided that Sebolfado was permanently sick and recommended that the housing care. Nolan described his “important” physical and cognitive client in recent years.
“The death of Christopher Cibolfado overnight in the prison clinic is a sad comment on the death penalty in Louisiana.” “The idea that the state was planning to connect this small and weak old man, and they die into a chair and forcing him to breathe toxic gas in his failed lungs is simply barbaric.”
According to Nolan, Sebolfado was sent to New Orleans to perform surgery earlier in the week, but he was returned to Friday night.
Louisiana officials decided to appeal the execution of death sentences earlier this month after a period of 15 years of halting a lack of political attention and the inability to secure legal injection drugs. Republican governor Jeff Landri pushed the foot Methods of implementing the expanded execution row To include electric shock and nitrogen gas.
Prosecutor Louisiana Les Morel said in a statement that “justice should have been delivered for a long time” and Louisiana “failed to surrender in his life.”
Sepulvado was to be held on March 17. Another man, Jesse Hoffman, was convicted of first -class death in 1996, and was implemented for implementation on March 18. Punishment. Federal judge on Friday This lawsuit was reopened After his rejection in 2022 because the state had no planned executions.
Country First implementation using nitrogen gas Last year was implemented in Alabama, which now has Four people executed Using the method.
