Louisiana execution postponed to study lethal drugs
Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
8:26 p.m. EST February 3, 2014
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A hearing on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s proposed new protocol — a mixture of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller — is scheduled for April 7, where lawyers for the inmate will present pharmacologists and other experts to challenge the state’s lethal cocktail, said Gary Clements, a lawyer for Sepulvado.
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Child killer gets 90-day reprieve in execution
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Vickie Welborn
Two days before his scheduled death, condemned child killer Christopher Sepulvado has received yet another reprieve as the debate over how he should die continues in the courtroom.
An agreement reached Monday morning between state corrections officials and defense attorneys puts off Sepulvado’s execution at least 90 days, or no sooner than May 4. U.S. District Judge James J. Brady issued the temporary restraining order following a status conference in his chambers.
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Louisiana has two-drug cocktail in stock for Wednesday execution, official says
By Lauren McGaughy, NOLA.com | The Times Picayune
on January 31, 2014 at 4:07 PM
Updated February 01, 2014 at 1:13 PM
Louisiana corrections officials said Friday (Jan. 31) the state has in stock the two-drug cocktail it plans to use to execute condemned killer Christopher Sepulvado on Wednesday. The confirmation came a week after the state admitted it could not secure the drug it originally intended to use in the lethal injection, and just four days after it amended its execution protocol to allow for change in drugs.
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Sepulvado’s execution would be the first for Louisiana since 2010, when Gerald Bordelon was put to death for the 2002 rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
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Oklahoma pharmacy says it has not broken law in supplying lethal injection drugs
Louisiana switches lethal injection drugs for next week’s execution
(CNN) — Ahead of next week’s scheduled execution of convicted killer Christopher Sepulvado, the Louisiana Department of Corrections has switched to the same controversial two-drug combination that was used in Ohio this month, the Louisiana department said.
“The reason for the change is that DOC has been unable to procure the drug, pentobarbital, specified in the one-drug protocol,” DOC spokeswoman Pam Laborde said in a statement. “The Department will continue to attempt to obtain the drug or drugs necessary for either of the two protocols.”
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Stay sought in Louisiana execution
State is late in getting lethal-injection drug; potential supplier kept secret
DeSoto judge ups child killer’s execution date
Burgess: March date was ‘incorrectly fixed,’ moves it to Feb. 5.
Federal judge delays Louisiana execution date for Christopher Sepulvado
Louisiana cannot execute a DeSoto Parish man next week because the state has provided too little information about the drug that will be used in the lethal injection and the execution methods, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge James Brady canceled the Feb. 13 execution for Christopher Sepulvado, who was convicted of the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson two decades ago.
Brady said without more details about the protocol the Louisiana State Penitentiary plans to use in preparing for and carrying out the injection, lawyers for Sepulvado cannot protect his constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment.
The state will have the opportunity to execute Sepulvado, Brady said, adding, “But it must do so in a constitutional manner.”
I had a feeling this would happen the minute I was aware of the change in how the execution was going to be performed.
Catholic bishops’ request to stop Ash Wednesday execution of Christopher Sepulvado denied
State corrections officials announced through their attorneys in Baton Rouge federal court Tuesday that they have replaced a three-chemical lethal injection formula with a single dose of pentobarbital.
U.S. District Judge James J. Brady had called a hearing on the three-chemical formula because of concerns over the possibility of agonizing deaths that were raised by attorneys for two death row inmates. One of those inmates is scheduled for execution Feb. 13.
In a related development, a spokesman for Gov. Bobby Jindal said his boss will not grant a request by the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops to postpone that execution until after Ash Wednesday. The bishops also suggested Monday that convicted murderers could be sentenced to non-lethal punishment, such as imprisonment for life.
BATON ROUGE, La. —The Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking Gov. Bobby Jindal to halt a state execution planned for the Christian holy day of Ash Wednesday.
Christopher Sepulvado is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 13 for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson two decades ago.
Christopher Sepulvado is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, 6-9 p.m.
Sepulvado was indicted for the first-degree murder of his six-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer. He has been on death row in since being convicted in 1993 of beating and scalding his stepson.
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