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jail for bribery but his lawyers claimed he was entrapped by the country's authorities which over the investor on hundred million dollars. that's our special report looks at the merits of the death penalty and whether the crime of murder should always mean an eye for an eye for. the souls of the united states of america oklahoma. this road leads to mcalester

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 had ever since the night of his execution i have been convinced that the death penalty acts like a poison on all those who participate and that now my aim is to meet all the people that 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. boston. channels twenty nine when this interview took place.

most people around here you know all this season here when all they see the chains and warriors cry. all you can see is this summer's herzog by. some of the skills of buddy. if someone is dangerous. you are the person did the person. i don't blame. he said this is what. the usual relieved relieved. to was he needed a good word believe the worst during the years when i didn't i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those we'll have a right to be angry with me those people have

a right to what we did if i ever heard you might want to. thank you. when he was sixteen shauna murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather lee belafonte. their birds here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy of the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in

a home shown shot them 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. 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 shawn in exchange for a lighter sentence. when this is evidence even shown sellers own confessions 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 that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits

a crime can 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. psychiatrist claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one of the time of the trial shown now in adults writes books attacking occultism receives thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation get exhausted all legal recourse. whatsoever it is here it i gave her most of the streets to believe it was or it is you know. nothing to jackie's. am.

three days after meeting sean i sit in on a clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is jones last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. but. steve president sean's new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution. of. the five members of the jury selection by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not

sean sellers should be pardoned. in the end the governor makes the decision on his old. activist seconds the death penalty and friends of show on our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this. signifies whether we. will grant mercy origin or inner city. after they always show. first ones i had or two years. in all of my is why should a great person. and if used in i'd mercy i feel it is justice for you i fear for our state yes that's right but it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something for

a crime. right right fear fear for what it's go we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize that there are better ways to handle this and to execute. next year is. going to arrest the world based. on sound sellers of turning us under your burden from no man should ever have to shoulder out of a month is early in life. as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that song so or should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that out each day for the last thirteen years on a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a mouth 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 he's not executed old will spend the rest of his

life and just such an existence and that better than i want to get is very turns many say not but no one can credibly argue that a prison is not punishment sean has been punished is and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now when. you're not soldiers who are on sellers'. and dark. estimate death row very dark and on that road leads to finding and things don't expect was going on. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace.

of parents and children of lee belafonte sean stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lorna know well at least son and daughter. and. i'm here to guy. just you come. from was thirteen years my families remain silent allowing me just this. and the courts. and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves there in your presence

clinging to you throughout the deaths. of song hours to go forward and i executed. the execution the sellers will not bring my father back the monster mother. can never fill the void in my life. sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not. open. contempt is a lot of fifteen minutes to play his case. card

fortunately. that i. am something of what you heard her to do you can. ask her. i know they. can mention. right strange day. because you didn't have any mercy on your whatsoever. and i didn't come here to ask for justice.

came here today for mercy. i don't think you will live or make that would have been if. i'm not. so allusion to the life and make up you can cause i. have to try in time to keep on company. and this type of hearing the jury does not return to deliberate the verdict is announced directly. and. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge.

i'll start my. problem now and my thought is now. that. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers is adjourned. sean is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case has been closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution life is going.

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

a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it well bella fodder lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine years impatiently for sean to be executed. oklahoma the families of the victims have the right to view the execution. 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 it was lethal injection that was all. it was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to go in line down and the warden was in there and some doctor. saw a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like an x. ray was readily hidden like a fright or perhaps he came to terms with his fate he gets

a list of everyone who's there. is an execution both for his guests in 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 gotcha he didn't get away with it and now we're even 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 he was a killer. around i don't think i've ever gone through

it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was a slave like an animal like euthanize a dog or a cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lower and realize that the execution would also claim other victims

sean's family. sean's biological father who had abandoned him when he was too hard about his son's coming execution. he sent on a video message from california. they'll take a good look for. her and make sure that if her thirtieth day of. her you can't get back there her way. i don't think i could almost have the. underwear for a stable enough to do this. work in talking to your this this or to communicate with me i can't i can't stand.

alone me who wish they would renew every. goodbye. 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 going to affect a world where the other one i put in today is. no better. he's going to show tear my good sales. put a show they're not going that man sir i don't regularly back to back. you know what was your reaction when i was really just. i just really so well. how cruel can you be really. so when i came to my mind. i hated chance effort. because i lived chan. and was i was consider me.

as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken and to come and see harry i couldn't bear to think of. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. issues that so much of the internet is a huge music share price and on the mark with the battle for libya is the so-called humanitarian intervention there so noble and straightforward must intervene.

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