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this is r t from moscow the top stories this morning coalition air strikes on libya claimed more lives as at least thirteen rebels are reported killed in last night's raid it comes as the country's government rejects the opposition ceasefire condition saying it will never withdraw its troops from rebel held city. a satirical view of events in the middle east a priority on the form of two out of leaders in efforts to topple the third great big star on the internet a russian cartoonist claims of modern day version of this we will take it with
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a computer game to present to you. and what is the japan's fukushima nuclear power plant fighting to stop radioactive water leaking into the pacific under extreme conditions activists are calling you have an agency wolf in the area has not shown radiation levels for those times when the government. now a special report looking at the merits of the death penalty whether the crime of murder should always mean an eye for an eye. and wonders 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 well and laura knew her well. we're all for justice if it be anyone. in our we'd be in iraq they are with
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bales you know ringing it because it's. payback it's it's it's you know whatever but when it's someone that that you care about and if you did the same for them when they kill you it's mixed emotions it's it's unexplainable. it's sad. it's. called for. and. so waste. he was the last. part of me. and my sister in. his car.
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he was my sister's child she's gone. now they're all. in that society. do i feel responsible for helping in execution yeah. do i feel bad about it. now do i feel bad for the greeting the jim and. debbie went through yeah i feel sorry for their loss do i feel horrible they lost in war than i did. they lost vonder and sean i just lost my father did they lose more you bet grandfather jim jones and debbie refused to come to the execution on february fourth one thousand nine
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hundred nine about six minutes to die. i don't know what i thought. i saw him and. person. because i didn't want to. but i was so angry i still wanted it to go. and i have great remorse sometimes for us most of the time i'm not thinking about it it's done it's done deal done and over ten years i've not had to worry
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i think. 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 afic and damaged he has lost eleven of the men he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them. are going to be. here so many people who support the death penalty say well it's part of our system we have it well the only reason that we have it is part of the state of the system is because they won't act to change it and they they support the system and neutral and they don't know why it's something they don't know first hand. or even second
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hand what. a horrible. process it is. i don't know when told one of their own family members has to go through it and then suddenly. they see everything wrong with. that case and others that shawn's because i was pretty close to home. destroyed my faith in the american legal system before doing go through cases i had the highest confidence in our courts and our law enforcement because you know i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the courts found out that the things were good and far and it was seeing the machinery of the state moving so venomously. very mannerly against these people on death row to extinguish their lives and ignoring good
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evidence and ignoring constitutional violations. and that just took it out of me. is maybe it's maybe better on burnout. i really dislike the system i dislike being a lawyer. but it's that. steve no longer attends the executions. many people in oklahoma claim of the executions are humane and painless. i'm heading to mcallister in the eastern part of the state where the penitentiary
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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 have no problem there. you know i member shontelle or because he was a party guy that actually he was not an adult at the time which didn't. work and i
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want to first. thank you note xan. thought of while i remembered that exchange. when it got a flash bangs occasion. was involved in oh morning. i was involved in approximately fifty two executions. proximately sixteen executions. fred cook was in charge of sean's execution his father also executed prisoners and the electric chair fred is retired now
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but about johnny and then and he would get i think big he had. i mean you know he's guilty he he done it they were no he ways of bad it and. so nice interesting today if and we can't be mown death row on toast that's damage it was time to execute him and then we executed. once they completed that they were they know. they don't have a good omen table meynell two ways about it and so did problem. what was going through sean's mind during his final moments. when an execution
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takes place a lethal sudden says are injected from this room through these holes in the wall street 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 during their final hours. elaine was one of the guards that would strap them to the gurney. dark as well. jane would bring the lethal chemicals and see that the execution
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ran smoothly. fred the oldest planned the procedure. eight nine minutes before the execution is good you were moving from the from the sale take humans out execution chamber where they came of six. all sort of restraint of when they first come out of the so they had his look on. known for twenty years and be known for a long time we have as local. disbelief that you're going to be one of them that's going to work i'm in there and you know here and you know legard the a a golden or a like a main they wished it was somebody you wish it was somebody else. well you said you welcome aboard the gurney and they look at you because they don't know they've never done this before there's
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a sense of stress maybe nervousness. as far as you know same one individual that once they entered the door to the chamber the nerves got to him so bad that they became weak in the knees and you know that he's kind of and strapped down teams for a step and grabbed him by the arm and you know just held him up and assist in a moment on the gurney and i look at you like personal direction you know sort of away on a gurney and i look at him like you can you know i've combs are a bit unfair when there are people who are. you know and they you know if they're in the way you want to do now you know and we're going to lay down here with. a trauma. and know as we want to do and. we can tell no one answer i'm just going to keep doing. what you know spread down and they look at you you know i've had him look at me. like they want to say buyers i saw him i just don't look at him i
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didn't i just i would look at him and i know there was. so much i don't want to say anything so mom cried some doubt that pointed toward and say that the extinction began or before he says that he waits a little bit and that why for the governor in 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 look. you have that moment of time to think you know i talked about individual forty five minutes ago when individuals dead. and. it's a humbling experience i mean when i'm. at times it's just disbelief you know. because some of them i know for a tune of fourteen year. you will never forget about it you think about
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it until the day you know. their affection and how can that not affection that you're taking some guy even though he's done something to somebody you know this if you're taking some guys stripping down and basically you're putting to death because you're part of the whole process of doing it but 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 son 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. old maisie held office for close to twenty five years he is known in the us for being the d.a. who has obtained the most death sentences around sixty. three. macy 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 can't really give you the death bed live awfully somebody else one. of. the district
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attorney's arguments always had the backing of the public. may see the onion olding d.a. is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. i have seen executives of. white. whores my sons knows not much you know our jobs a prosecutor from running the charges that they have our lives and our usual death penalty. i don't think the satisfaction of joy and.
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spirits and those are low hopefully. almost none of the law enforcement people blue agree that he lives illiterate oh goodness i have lizards just. you say you hope that it is a terror and it means it is not proven oil have you. there's no way i know of a figure when you stop someone who's not. 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 facts of error in the twelve years since sean's execution oklahoma's climate has
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not decreased. or on leno or opioid to crime as on who was president especially directed to young women and children and. i can explain to you wives have an. america crimes are very horrible crimes i don't know how to exploit it. or if i would see had several cases one of this county were or friend or husbands want to smash a baby against a wall and i don't want to live. the person who could do that until a baby. arrives that we're dealing with i don't really rehabilitation work i rather think you committed he's horrible
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can eat. the you can. eat. fish eat eat eat was the ticket out of it. 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 don't junking accompanied shown for many other prisoners both men and women in their final moments now he no longer carries out this mission.
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does that square for justify what we're doing today. now are we doing it today because we are punishing people in my life it's been it's been eight years. and now i can finally talk about fully talk about what i can't. there are regret you know help the person. not that i was in favor of putting that person to bed and nothing was going to stop that i was there to help that person and so 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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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. and oklahoma the mortal remains not claimed by family are buried in the little cemetery in front of the penitentiary.
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