Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in March. His death by natural causes compels America to grapple with the graying of its death row population.

Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in March.

Give me a little time,” Christopher Sepulvado’s ex, who also served time for her son’s murder, told The Independent. “I’m not ready to comment yet.”

Sepulvado was sentenced to die for the 1992 murder of his 6-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, whom authorities said was beaten and scalded to death. The boy’s mother Yvonne Jones was convicted of manslaughter in the death and served more than seven years in prison.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions," according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

Sepulvado's attorneys said that doctors had recommended the inmate for hospice care shortly before prosecutors secured their warrant for execution, according to the outlet. He was on death row for beating the 6-year-old with the handle of screw driver and then immersed him in scalding water in a bath tub resulting in burns on 58% of his body.

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died.

A death row inmate slated to be the first to be executed in Louisiana in 15 years has died. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, passed away over the weekend after spending more than 30 years on death row.