BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Corrections will appeal a federal judge's injunction that stalls the execution
of a DeSoto Parish man for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old stepson.
But Wade Shows, a lawyer for the department, says there will be no attempt to keep the execution scheduled for next week as
planned. Instead, Shows says the state will seek to reschedule the lethal injection for another time.
U.S. District Judge James Brady ruled
Thursday that state corrections officials have given Christopher
Sepulvado too little
information about the drug that will be used in the lethal
injection and the methods involved in carrying out the execution.
Brady says without that information, lawyers for Sepulvado cannot protect his constitutional right against cruel and unusual
punishment.