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south of the united states of america oklahoma. this road leads to macalister penitentiary which houses prisoners condemned to death. this is where just twelve years ago i met schoen sellars 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 participated in it and now my aim is to meet all the people of were involved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. the camera cameras three. thousand three. football players or leave. the. channel is twenty nine when this interview

took place. most people around you know all this season did you in all the see the chains the warriors crying. in baseball you can see is that some was heard by. some is killed somebody. is somewhat dangerous. you are the first good person to die. i don't blame. he said this is what. the only people who really really. have. to was the

media people i've heard believe her story is one idea now sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me as we'll have a right to be a b. with those legal rights what we did if i ever heard you might want to get. when he was sixteen sean murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather lieb elephant up bear buried here in eastern oklahoma.

i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in the home shown shot him with his stepfather's gun. he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when the teenager was arrested he admitted the 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. and 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 sellars 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. shawn's 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 rather tragedy states a sixteen year old when he commits a crime to be put to death. 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 shawn's lawyers try in vain to get a retrial. psychiatrists claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one at the time of the trial shown now an adult writes books attacking occultism you see styles of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation here exhausted all legal recourse. for the whatever it is here it i hate. most of the street is to

believe that you know what is or it is you know. nothing to treat it. three days after meeting sean i sit in on the clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. for life. steve preston shows a new lawyer is working day and night prevent the execution. 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 that 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. signifies whether me and. grant mercy or deny are safe and after they always show. up for as long as i have or change years. if all of my is where it should be growing it's worse. and if used in i'd more see how i feel it is justice. here for our state yes it's

right that it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something for a crime. right right here here for what we are not the wild wild west it's trying to get you to realize that there are better ways to handle this than to execute. it's here and it's. going to the rest of the world thinks it's. unsound seller's attorney as i'm sure you've heard of no man should ever have to shoulder out of three months early him alive. and as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not inside the song so it should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years on a slope on a concrete slab just inches from

a metal toilet and a wonder was from smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day off and twenty four and if it's not executed health will spend the rest of his life just such an existence in the better than why did his victims and many say not but no one can credibly argue to prison that is not punishment shawn has been punished is been and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now when. and soldiers who are. on sellers' lose on a dark. estimate death row very dark on that road needs to find him and. he's going to extinguish on. i think.

during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace. of parents and children of leave belafonte to shawn step father are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lauren and the well least son and daughter. i'm here to buy. just for my father for almost thirteen years.

style it allowed me just this. and our courts. and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves here in your presence clinging to you throughout the deaths. of song hours to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back to the monster mother. and can never fill the void in my loft. as sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is my punishment this is not a vengeance. i

contend is allowed fifteen minutes to plead his case. hard. how did. i. know something of what you heard today i know that you come. after. another year. can imagine. what i say today. because you have been immersed you know me well so have.

no i didn't come here to ask and just. came here today for mercy. you. know. i don't think you will live with it. i'm not. so allusion to the one thing that made me think was not. to try in time to keep on line.

and this type of hearing the jury does not charge deliberating the verdict is announced directly. this time. i'll call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll step mother this time. now and not just now. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers is 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 gone. now twelve years later i'm going to meet was one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. i think clemency hearing lauren belafonte though some of lee belafonte asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of the south he. has always been in favor of capital punishment. i didn't decide the punishment see that's you've got to remember that twelve other

people decided that was his punishment that was fitting vanishment food climate committed. because i happen to agree with it it is this is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it well bellefonte lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma 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. he was struck down to the 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 it was lethal injection that was all done through it it was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to gallon rang down and the warden was in there and some doctor. said he prison guards i believe

there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like an x. ray was readily he didn't look afraid perhaps he came to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who's they are attending is an execution both for his guests in the prison 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 thought you hit didn't get away with it and now we. had reached

a point where i guess i'd be humanized him and i had to for my own peace of mind i had to like i did for what he was a killer. or as i don't think i could have ever done for it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was had to sleep like an animal like euthanize a dog or cat but it was actually probably far more humane.

noel than lorne realized that the execution would also claim other victims sean's family. sean'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. there pick a good look at her for. her nature of this with her thirteenth day of. how you can get back there if you. don't think i could almost have the.

stable enough to do this. work i am talking to you or this this or to communicate with the i care i can't stand right. now i love you i wish things were different. but by. the execution was a terrible ordeal for shawn's grandfather jim saunders 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 with graves or. i would love to say it's going to affect a world where that when they put him to their death but i know better. this girl showed her my good. could 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 so real so it came to my mind. i hated that chance effort. because i lived share. and was always gets 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. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the.

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