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penitentiary which houses prisoners condemned to death. this is where just twelve years ago i met schoen 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 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 and three. cars in three. football players or leave. the. john was twenty nine months interview took place.

most people around here you know all this season did when all they see is the chains and bars crying. if all you see is this summer's herzog but. someone is killed somebody. is somewhat dangerous. you are the person did the person is or. i or blame. he said this is what. the only legal really really. have. to was he needed. people i've heard believe her story is one i didn't know i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those people have a right to get angry with me those people have

a right did it i never heard you the white kid. when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. their birds here in eastern oklahoma. the boy that. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v.

station. one night while vonta and lee were sleeping in the home shown shot them with his stepfather scum he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. and. 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. his 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 rather tragedy that in states a sixteen yo when he commits

a crime of. 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 unknown 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 them thirteen years after his condemnation here exhausted all legal recourse. are we deliberately. i think. most of the street is to believe you know what it's. up to.

three days after meeting sean i sit in on a clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as a last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. for life. 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 old activists against the death penalty and friends of sean are present to ask but his life be spared. to me this state. signifies whether we. will grant mercy or generously and after they always show. the first ones i have for ten years. all of my is what you should be grateful for c. . if he is denied mercy i feel it is justice. here for our state yes just right it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something first right.

right right here here for a while so we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize that there are better ways to handle this and to execute. it's here and it's. stored in the rest of the world based. on sound sellers of turning. on your part and no man should ever have to shoulder that upgrading early in life. and as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not inside its own soul 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 mile toilet and i wonder was from smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day often twenty four and he's not executed all will spend the rest of his life

and just such an existence is a better than a want to get is there comes in many so not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not sean has been punished is being punished and will be punished. and i ask you about clemency if not now when. you're not showing soldiers who are on sellers' lives on a dark. estimate death row very dark on that row isn't finding him and oh please don't extinguish them on. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace.

but parents and children of leave belafonte shown the stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them or lorna know well at least son and daughter. i'm here to die. just for my. firm was thirteen years my family has remained silent allowed to just phones and our courts. and now after all of us time we are shocked to find ourselves there in your

presence pleading to you so why the death. of song hours to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back or my stepmother. and 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. the condemned man is allowed fifteen minutes to plead his case.

hard for you know we. are all that i. know something of what you've heard here today and on your home. after. another. can imagine. right and saved and. because you have been immersed know me well so have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today for mercy.

i don't think you will live with it. i'm not so listen to that and i make no impulse. i have to try in time to keep on. going. and this type of hearing the jury does not protect deliberating the verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically by their. bragging

rights now. i'll step mother this time. now and my thought is now. this time the clemency hearing your son sours his attorney. shawn 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 am going to meet with one of the witnesses of the execution and this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. after clemency hearing lauren belafonte some of lee belafonte will ask 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 giving punishment for the crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it if he 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 and center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine years and patiently for shown to be executed . homa the families of 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 struck down through 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 was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to go in rang 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 and that to me was readily available he didn't like a very 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 and the prison yes and his family members and the victim's family members bits. 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 raised 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. or as i don't think i could have ever gone through

it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was like an animal like euthanize a dog or a cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lower and realized 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. they're ok good look for. her need for this kind of thirtieth day of. i just can't get back there to feel her way. i don't think i could almost have the. summer. stable enough to do this. oh ok i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with me i can't i can't

stand. alone i wish things were different. good bye. 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 still migraines are. still moderates or. i would love to say it's not going to affect a world where the other one they could improve their. but no better. this girl showed her my good self. could show there's not going a man sir i don't regularly back to back. you know what was your reaction when i was with you just. i just really so we'll. see how cruel can you be really. that's only so it came to my mind. i hated the jenny sanford. because i'll chance. it was i was good to me.

as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken at the committee hearing i couldn't bear to think of. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution.

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