should close up on. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. this is our t.v.'s take a look at the main stories we're covering for you this hour the libyan regime has one thing the jets it's a deal proposed by the opposition offered a cease fire exchange for a troop withdrawal and a resignation of colonel gadhafi. and israeli investor gets seven years in the frozen jail after being charged with bribery he says it was set up problem georgian government which owes him one hundred million dollars and refuses to pay the debts. and. trouble continues workers prepare to seal

a breach at the hands tricking the nucleus saw it as a new act of water seeps into the pacific ocean. the next 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. 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 shone 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 participated in it now my aim is to meet all the people up or involved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. the cameras cameras in three. cars in three. football players or are we. ok. sean was twenty nine when this interview took place. most of the people around here you know all this season doing all they see the

chains the warriors cry. if all you can see is this summer's herzog but. someone is killed somebody. this someone is dangerous. you're the first good person. i or blame. he said this is what. illegal relieved really. to want to see media and people i've heard believe her story is what i did when i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those we'll have a right again be with me those people have a right to what we did if i ever heard you might want to hear.

when he was sixteen sean murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. they are buried here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at a local t.v. station. one night while vonta and lee were sleeping in their home shawn 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. his 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 this is 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 that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits a crime to be put to death. in

one thousand nine hundred seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemns to death in the united states in the past fifty years. over the thirteen years following his seven saying 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 unknown of the time of the trial shown now an adult writes books attack in the cold as it was used thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation yet exhausted all legal recourse. for the killer if it is hear it i hate. most of the streets to believe their daughters are the ones you know. that they come to you.

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. for life. steve presson shown his 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 shown seller should be pardoned.

if in the end the governor makes the decision on his own activists against the death penalty and friends of show our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this state. signifies whether me and. grant mercy or dinners and after they always show. first one as i have for two years. all of my is where it should be growing it's worse. if you stick i see i feel it is justice for you i fear for our state yes just i think it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something first right. right

right here fear for what scope we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize that there are better ways to handle this than to execute. it's here and it's. going to rest the world thinks it's a. fun song seller's attorney for one very important no man should ever have to shoulder that of a month early human life. and 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 and then i doubt each day for the last thirteen years on a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a mile toilet in a windowless room smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day often twenty four and if he's not executed will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence is it better than what i did is there comes many say not but

no one can credibly argue that a christian man is not punished sean has been punished is being punished and will be punished. by asking him about clemency if not now when. if not so and so and so. on sellers. is on a dark. that's what. every car on that road leads up finding and the police don't extinguishment on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their piece.

with parents and children of lee bell a photo shown stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lorna know well at least son and daughter. i heard a guy. just from not far from was thirteen years. of style it allowed me just this. don't score it's. now after all of us time we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence pleading

for you so a lot. of songs hours to go forward and i think you're good. the executioner sellers will not bring my daughter back or monster mother. it can never fill the void in my life. as tellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not nothing. it confirms it is a lot of fifteen minutes to played his case. now

we. know something of what you heard today. after. another. can imagine. right it's thursday. because you have been immersed in army whatsoever. and i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here to pay for mercy.

i don't think you will live or make the wouldn't you. i'm not so listen to that and i made up and was not. to try in time to keep on. in this type of hearing the jury does not retired deliberating the verdict is announced directly. this time. i'll call on each member of the board alphabetically.

i'll start my this time. final for them now and i've got this now right. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers was adjourned. sean is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case had been closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution life is gone.

now twelve years later i am going to meet with one of the witnesses at the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. clemency hearing lauren bell a father and son 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 people decided that was his punishment that was a bidding punishment for the crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it . uses as a side subject that's that's. that's

good for me. it's well belafonte lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton and center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. homa the families of victims have the right to view the execution. and her family came to the penitentiary to watch sean being put to death. if.

he was stark 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 through it was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to gaiwan lying down and the word was in the air and some doctor. saw a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy. it seemed like and that to me was readily available he didn't much care for and perhaps he'd come to terms with his fate he

gets a list of everyone who's there. 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 gotcha he didn't get away with it now or even i've reached a point where i guess that the humanized him and i had to for my own peace of mind i had to literally for what he 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 a good slave like an animal like euthanize a dog or a cat but it was actually probably far more humane you. know ellen loren to realize that the execution would also claim other victims sean's family.

sean's biological father who had abandoned him when he was to heard about his son's coming execution. he sent him a video message from california. there are think good look for. certain in terms of these characters with the. predicate back there if you perform. well that i could almost have the. summer for you stable enough to do this. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with me i care i can't stand. alone you who wish they were different. could by.

the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim douglas 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 avanza and now the state was about to put his only grandson to death.

he still migraines are. still moderates or. i would love to say it's not going to affect me one where they were made for him to be a third of. but i don't know whether. this girl told her my good self. put the show to death or not go bring that my answer back 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 to came to my mind. i hate it that janice effort. because i live chan. and was i was good to 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 thinking. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. me. feel.

safe. for. me.