tv [untitled] April 2, 2011 9:30am-10:00am EDT
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violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations rule the day. there are two live from moscow our top stories coalition air strikes on libya claimed more lives at at least ten rebels are reported killed in our brain this comes out the country's government reject the opposition cease fire conditions saying it will never work draw its troops from the rebel held city it's. meanwhile across the cartels causes a stir on the internet with his take on the events in libya and across the mideast you glance a modern same person of the three little pigs but
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a popular computer game designer working view of the region on rafts. plus preparations for a tie and spacecraft launch marking the fiftieth anniversary of man's first space flight are in the final phase of the rocket has been installed on the launch pad of baikonur cosmodrome three days before take. off that's our special report about the only american under seventeen to be executed in the u.s. . as sister debbie lives not far from the penitentiary town she too used to take care of her nephew quite a lot when volunteer was out on the road noel and laura knew her well. we're all for just if it could be anyone. you know we'd been right there with.
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bales you know ringing of our own because it's. it's been it's you know whatever but when it's someone that that you care about. and you did the same for them. it's mix them up it's it's unexplainable. it's sad. and it's. uncalled for. and. so wastes. he was the last. art having. my sister in. his car.
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she's gone now he's gone now they're all. in that society. so do i feel responsible for helping in execution yeah. do i feel bad about it. now do i feel bad for the grieving the jim and. gabby went through yeah i feel sorry for their loss do i feel world they lost in war than i did. today lost vondra and sean i just lost my father did they lose more you bet grandfather jim shawn's
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and debbie refused to come to the execution on february fourth one thousand nine hundred nine about six minutes to die. i don't know what i thought. i saw him and the. person i tried not. because i didn't want to. but i was still angry i still wanted it to go. and i had great remorse sometimes for us most of the time i'm not thinking about it
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it's done it's done deal done and over again years i've not had to worry it's all right it's just his nap and what if he gets out again it's not a mayor worry about things that just i have no worries chain yours done closure. well we're not the only ones present a chance execution about night there were also those who have tried to save him.
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jones execution left scars on his lawyer steve press and. steve still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. specializing in final appeals of the condemned he has lost eleven of the men he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them. and we hear so many people who support the death penalty say well as part of our system we have it. the only reason that we have it is parts of the system is because they won't act to change it and they they support this system and it's wrong and they don't know why it's so they don't know first hand. or even second
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e.o. what. a horrible. process it is. but i don't know when told one of their own family members has to go through and suddenly. they see everything wrong with. that case and others that shawn's because i was pretty close to him. destroyed my faith in the american legal system before doing death row cases i had the highest confidence in our courts and our law enforcement was you know i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the courts. i thought that things were good and far and it was seeing the machinery of the state moving so venomously. and very minutely against these
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people on death row two to extinguish their lives and ignoring good evidence and ignoring constitutional violations. that just took it out of me. it is made me it's made better on burnout. i really dislike the system i dislike being a lawyer. that's what it is that. steve no longer attends the executions. many people in oklahoma claim that the executions are humane and painless.
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i'm heading to mcallister in the eastern part of the state where the penitentiary is located to find the man who executed shown sellers. in oklahoma the prison guards carry out the death sentences. the simplest way is to run an ad in the local newspaper looking for officers who participated in the execution. i am no problem there. i'm a member xan seller. he was the first guy that actually he was not an adult at the
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time which. i was working on my first. became any thing. i know sean. i thought of while i remember that exchange. with twenty flash bangs a q she. was involved in all morning. i was involved in approximately fifty two executions. proximately sixty execution. fred cooke who was in charge of sean's execution his father also executed prisoners
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in the electric chair fred is retired now but about johnny and then and he would guess that he had made. but i mean you know he is guilty he he done it when no two ways are bad it and. so i say interesting today if and we kept him on death row to fetch time and it was time to execute him and then we executed. once i complained that there were they no good. good omen table may know two ways about it and so that is probably. what was going through sean's mind during his final moments. when an execution
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takes place relief a sudden says are injected from this room through these holes in the wall the state recruits three citizens to carry out this task the law guarantees that they remain anonymous. during the entire execution only the guards are in direct contact with the condemned prisoners. tim guarded the inmates cheering their final hours. lane was one of the guards that would strap into the gurney. dark
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as well. jane would bring the lethal chemicals and see that the execution ran smoothly. fred the oldest plans a procedure. eighty nine minutes before the execution instead you were moving from when they fail to take immense out of the execution chamber with a payment of six zero observer of strain of when they first come out of this they have this look on all your thirty five known for twenty years and we know for a long time we had those local. disbelief that you're going to be one of them that's going to work i'm in there and you know hank you know legard and he anything goldener like a mayor they wished it was somebody else you wish it was somebody who knows. and well you said you walk them up for the gurney and they look at you because they
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don't know they've never done this before there's a sense of stress maybe nervousness. as far as you know same one individual that was they entered the door to the chamber or the nurse got them so bad that they became weak in the knees and you know they just kind of and strapped down teenagers for each trip and grabbed him by the arm and you know just held him up and assist in a moment of the gurney and they look at you like for some direction and you know sort of on the way on the gurney and they look at you like you can you know i've come sort of it until we were did it. you know and i'm going to get up there and what would you want to do now you know i'm going to lay out here but for him to withdraw and. i know asked why are you doing the. game tell him the answer i'm going to do it i want you know i'm strapped down and they look at you you know i've
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had him look at me you know like they want to say buyers they saw me i just don't look at him i don't just i would look at him and i would look at so much i don't want to say anything so mom cried some i'm go point toward and say that they excuse him again before he says that he waits a little bit and that way if for the governor a case together call for those that will that's the only way that they actually should be stopped if the governor calls at that point and at that time they will start administer lived through the system you have that moment of kind of you know i talked about individual forty five minutes ago when individuals. now and. it's a humbling experience i mean you. at times just disbelief you know. because some of them i know for ten and twelve fourteen year.
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you will never forget about it you think about it until the day you. head affectionate how can that not affectionate you're taking some guy even though he's done something to somebody bit of a center taken some guy and stripping down and basically you're putting it is because you're bored over the whole process of doing it well yeah it bothers me to this day i had nightmares i wake up waiting i wake up with herbal nightmares that they won't do no good to tell you because you wouldn't understand it unless you've been there. twelve years after the execution of sawn sellers i met only one participant of the story who didn't seem to have the slightest doubts.
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this is oklahoma county's district attorney the man who demanded the death sentence for sean. macey held office for close to twenty five years is known in the us for being the d.a. who has obtained the most death sentences around sixty. three. macey always claimed that the death sentence has a dissuasive effect and he reiterated that opinion during sean's trial. this may not be the best way to stop the killing but it's the only way i know and i think these jurors are saying look you go and you kill three people in this county
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room give you the death penalty that hopefully somebody else moved. to. the district attorney's arguments always had the backing of the public. may see the un yelling da is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. and i hear this in the executive and yourself know what. on the board my sons know so much you know our jobs prosecutor who bring the charges present players who lands and argue for the death penalty. i don't claim
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satisfaction or joy. here's a nurse or law hopefully. most lone wolf a law enforcement people blue-green lives i literally oh goodness i have lizards just. you say you hope it is a deterrent it brings it is not proven oil living. under snow where i know of a figure when you stop someone of news of. a much feared district attorney who has never witnessed a single execution now admits that there has never been any perth's that the death penalty has a dissuasive effect on criminality. the
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facts are very in the twelve years since john's execution oklahoma's crime rate has not decreased. right now or over or who crime is on most of dresden and especially directed to young women and children and. i can explain to you why is having america problems are very horrible crimes i don't know how to explain it you have seen or heard several cases filed in this county were or friend or husband's as my baby against a wall and i don't want to live. the person could do that could kill a baby. a crime was that we're dealing with i
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can eat. the a little. bit. to eat eat eat was the ticket. for many citizens of oklahoma the bible offers an irrefutable justification for the death penalty particularly the verses which are subject to widely differing interpretations about an eye for an eye a tooth for a target yet pastor jones duncan accompanied shontelle and many other prisoners both men and women in their final moments now he no longer carries out this mission .
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there's a scripture justify what we're doing today. and. are we doing it today because we like punishing people in my life it's been. it's been eight years now and now i can finally talk about fully talk about what i've had. do i regret you know i help the person not that i was in favor of putting that person down there nothing was going to stop that i was there to help that person and i thought i was i would minister to the person i would talk to them i cannot do this any longer i can't put words in god's mouth
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was. six years after sean's execution the supreme court at long last ruled against capital punishment for minors. today three thousand three hundred prisoners are waiting on death row throughout the united states. in oklahoma the mortal remains not claimed by family are buried in the little cemetery in front of the penitentiary.
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