A terminally ill Louisiana man on death row for brutally murdering his six-year-old stepson in 1992 died Saturday of “natural causes,” three weeks before his scheduled execution date.
After Wesley Allen Mercer returned home from school with soiled trousers, Christopher Sepulvado, 81, abused him for two straight days, beating him over the head with a screwdriver handle before submerging the unconscious boy in a bathtub filled with scalding water, according to prosecutors. He suffered third-degree burns over nearly 60 percent of his body, along with multiple head wounds that separated his scalp from his skull.
