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Christopher Sepulvado (November 11, 1943 – February 23, 2025) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in Louisiana for the 1992 murder of his stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, who was beaten with a screwdriver and scalded to death.
A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. [1]
As of September 30, 2009, 84 people, including 82 males and 2 females, were on death row for committing violent crimes. The death row population constituted .2% of Louisiana's incarcerated offenders. Of the death row offenders, 64.6% were Black, 34.1% were White, and 1.3% were other. The average age of a death row offender was 38.5 years, and ...
The 51 clemency applications came after a bill to abolish the death penalty failed during Louisiana's legislative session, which adjourned Thursday. ... Nearly all of Louisiana's death row inmates ...
Approximately 60 inmates are on death row in Louisiana, but executions have stalled due to legal challenges and drug shortages. Also on the list of state sanctioned execution methods is ...
Last year nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency — the commutation of a death sentence to life in prison — from then-Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who favored ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 299 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 150 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An ex-New Orleans police officer awaiting execution for the murders of a fellow officer and two other people during a 1995 restaurant robbery lost a chance at clemency ...