JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

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A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing ... using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now executed four people using ...

Sepulvado was to be executed on March 17 for the murder of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992 after a judge granted a death warrant on Feb. 11. He died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola ...

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

Louisiana Man on Death Row Dies Weeks Before March Execution Date ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died ...

“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.