Injection drug questions halt Sepulvado execution

Source: Baton Rouge Advocate

Convicted child killer Christopher Sepulvado will not face execution Wednesday as previously scheduled, state corrections officials announced Monday afternoon.

A trial on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s execution protocol is now set for April 7, state Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde said in a prepared statement.

The announcement came several hours after attorneys for Sepulvado and the state met Monday morning in private with U.S. District Judge James Brady at the federal courthouse in Baton Rouge.

Gov. Bobby Jindal had said Friday that Louisiana has the drugs it needs — the sedative midazolam and the pain medication hydromorphone — to put Sepulvado to death next week. The state abruptly switched to that combination of drugs because it could not obtain pentobarbital.



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