you'll be able to share receipt where we had a state controlled capitalism is called fascist when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. as you know song was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that song so or should not be honest for his crimes sean is the no rational person can deny that sean has been punished is being honest and will be honest. as ours must be executed for the little harm he committed this is my conscience this is not even. imagine. that it's. because you've been immersed know me whatsoever.

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penitentiary which houses prisoners condemned to death. this is where just twelve years ago i met sean sellers a young man condemned to death his story created a media star all over the world he was my age and i have never forgotten him ever since the night of his execution i have been convinced that the death penalty acts like a poison on all those who participate in it now my aim is to meet all the people up were involved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. the. cameras in three. cars and three. football players or are we. ok. sean was twenty nine months interview took place.

most people around here you know all the season there when they always see the chains and warriors cry. all you can see is that some was heard by. someone is killed somebody. else someone is dangerous. you are the first good person. and. i don't blame the. existing one. the only people who really really. have. to want to see me did a good one third believe her story is what i did when i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me a little have a right to be

a be with me those people have a right good if i ever heard you the white kid. when he was sixteen sean murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. their bird here in eastern oklahoma. the end . i found some archive footage on this tragedy at a local t.v.

station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in their home shown shot him with his stepfather scum. he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when the teenager was arrested he admitted to double murder and confessed to another crime. six months before he walked into a convenience store with an accomplice and shot dead a cashier. he was only fifteen at the time. is accomplice in the convenience store shooting was also arrested richard was

shawn's friend and both boys were obsessed with satanism. the two teenagers would tell the police that they killed the grocer just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify against shown in exchange for a lighter sentence. when mrs evidence even shown sellers' own confession everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant should this teenager be judged as an adult fully conscious of his acts. seans court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. i think it's right tragedy that in the united states a sixteen yo when he commits

a crime can be put. in one thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemned to death in the united states in the past fifty years . over the thirteen years following his sentencing sean grew up an adult in the macalister penitentiary in these half buried buildings

the cells which are underground have no natural light. as the years pass shaun's lawyers try in vain to get a retrial. psychiatrist claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one of the time of the trial shown now an adult writes books attacking the cold as it. sees thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation here exhausted all legal recourse. we'll ever hear it. i gave her the strings to believe you know what is or is you know. the truth.

three days after meeting sean i sit in the only clemency hearing the takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as of last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. for what. steve preston shown as new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution . of.

the five members of the jury selected by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not sean sellers should be pardoned. if. in the end the governor makes the decision on his own. activists against the death penalty and friends of sean are present to ask but his life be spared. to me this day. signifies whether me and i. will grant mercy or deny mercy and after they always show. the first ones i have for ten years. in all of my being he is one should be granted for mercy and if he is denied mercy i feel it is justice or am i fear for our state yes decide that it's ok to murder a sixteen year old girl person. or something for crimes committed.

by my fear or fear for it was discovered we are not the wild wild west it's time to . realize that better ways to handle this security. experience is. story or as the world things. unfold sellars attorney as i'm sure you've already know man should never have to shoulder that of his early in life. as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say the chancellor should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years john it's a concrete slab just inches from a metal toilet in a windowless room smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day often twenty four i think is not executed old will spend the rest of his life

in not just such an existence is it better than what he gave his victims and many so not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not rational sean has been punished and is and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now when. it's not shown soldiers who are. on sellers' lives on a dark. desolate death row very dark on that row is a fine in and of. please don't extinguish them on. during

the hearings the families of the victims get to say their piece. with parents and children of leave telephoto shown stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lauren and the well at least son and daughter. i'm here to die. just. for almost thirteen years my family is an american style it allowed me just phones and our courts. and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence

clinging to you throughout the death. of song hours to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back to cover my stepmother and can never fill the void in my life. as sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is i punched this is not. and can. i content is allowed fifteen minutes to play his case.

hard for you know. that i. know something of what you heard did you. not heard. another. can imagine. right save the day. because you have been immersed in all new ones who have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today for mercy.

and. i don't think you will live with it. i'm not. so allusion to the one thing about make people's lives. to try in time to keep on company. and this type of hearing the jury does not retard deliberate the verdict is announced directly. this time. i

will call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll step mother it's time. for a lot more of them now on my list now. this time the clemency hearing orszag sours was adjourned. this. sean is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case is being closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution life is going ok.

now twelve years later i am going to meet was one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. clemency hearing lauren bell a father son of leave ella federal aspect shown be executed lauren is a true man of the south and he. has always been in favor of capital punishment if i didn't decide the funds not see that you got to remember that twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a bidding punishment for the crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it

it uses as a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it well belafonte lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine years and patiently for sean to be executed. homa the families of the victims have the right to view the execution. well and her family came to the penitentiary to watch shawn being put to death.

if. he was strapped down to a table with his arms out to his side and they had run an i.v. which was how they were going to. commit the execution and it was lethal injection it was all done. it was altered intravenously he was proud to write a gallon lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor and such a prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like and that to me it was readily

he didn't like it for i perhaps he's come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who's there. is an execution both for his guests and the prison guests and his family members and the victim's family members it's a it's the only opportunity you're going to have to go see i gotcha here didn't get away with it and now we. i've reached a point where i guess i'd be humanized him and i had to for my own peace of mind i had to look at him for what it was

a killer. or as i don't think i could have ever gone through it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was had to sleep like an animal like euthanize a dog or a cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lower and he realized that the execution would also claim other victims

john's family. shawn's biological father who had abandoned him when he was two heard about his son's coming execution. he sent him a video message from california. they're ok good look for. her nature this is carol thirtieth day of. i just can't get back there. i don't think i could almost have the. summer if we stay want to have to do this. or lucky i'm talking to you or this this way to communicate with i can't stand.

alone be her wish they were different. but by. the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim vande his father. jim often took care of the little boy when his mother was out on the road. i met jim twelve years ago when i came here the first time it was a few days before the execution. jim had already lost his daughter vonder and now the state was about to put his only grandson to death.

he's still migraines are. they still moderates or. i would love to say it's not going to affect me one where the other one they put him today . but i know better. he's going to go tear my good self. put a show to death or not go bring that man sir i don't regularly back. you know what was your reaction when i was really just. i just really so well. how cruel can you be really. that's only so it came to my.

i hated third chance effort. because i live chair. and was i was kids me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken and a committee hearing i couldn't bear to think and. grandfather died shortly after the execution. wealthy british.

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