the thing is that the have the jews are still unaware of what's going on in their minds still asking. such like. i don't know if you've got less than the grade. on our cheek. to sneeze on the week's top stories here analyse the libyan opposition this points against colonel gadhafi suffers an unexpected setback nato air strike reportedly planning more than a dozen rebels. fears over a potential terrorist attack in europe grow a security experts claim the coalition's involvement in libya could trigger a radical response intelligence agencies report a rise in terrorist suspects it was in the post the media. japan struggles to

stem the leak of radioactive water from the into the ocean thousands of homeless tsunami survivors face an uncertain future and they're now venting under a government which they say is not doing enough to help. bring together often to muster the better civil side probably russia deals a devastating blow to terrorism and the killing of a group of high ranking militants a security service or aid in russia's republic of english killed several terrorists from within the circle of the. first wanted man in the country. well next we're following the footsteps of sean souter who was sentenced to death at the age of sixteen twelve years old we asked whether capital punishment is really the answer to crime.

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 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 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 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. cameras three. nights in

three. football players are louis. ok. john was twenty nine when this interview took place. most people around here you know all this season here when all you see the chains bars crying. all you can see is are some herzog by. some of those killed somebody. if someone is dangerous. you are the first year that person is.

playing. exhibited this one. the only people who really really. have. to want to see me did a good one third the worst during the years when i didn't i was sixteen years old those we have a right to hate me a little have a right to be angry with me those legal rights what they did if i ever heard you why do you want to die. when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. their

birds here in eastern oklahoma. the back. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at 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 a 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 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.

sean's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders and the defendant. for the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. think it's raw tragedy that in states a sixteen yo when he commits a crime can be put.

in one thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person can vamps 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. psychiatrist him to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on the all of the time of the trial shown now on adults writes books attacking the cultures of. the stars and of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation here exhausted all legal recourse.

we deliberately. came. to the streets to believe no one is or it's you know. the truth. three days after meeting sean i sit in on the clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. but.

steve preston shows a new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution. 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. in the end a governor makes the decision on his own activists against the death penalty and friends of shown our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this state. signifies whether we. will grant

mercy or generously and after they always show. first ones i had for ten years. all of my being is one should a great person. and if he is to night mercy i feel it is justice for you here for our state yes it's right it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something first right. right right fear fear for what it's go we're not the wild wild west it's time to realize there are ways to handle this and to execute. next year is. going to rest the world based. on sound sellers of turning upon your pardon no man should ever have to shoulder the other three months early in life. and as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these

murders that's not inside the song so it should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years on a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a mile toilet in a wunderlist room 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 health will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence and the better the more you get his victims many so not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment sean has been punished is and will be punished. 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 even so finding and please don't explain it was rough on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace. but parents and children of leave telephoto shown stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lauren and the well at least son and daughter.

i'm here to die. just so you can have her for almost thirteen years my family has remarried style it allowed me just this. drug courts. and now after all of us time we are stuck to ourselves and your cries it's clinging to you. have song hours to go forward and executed. the execution the sellers will not bring my father bad performance or mother it can never fill the void in my heart. well sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not. a

convention it is a lot of fifteen minutes to play his case. if they are to or if you know. that i.

know something of what you heard today i know that you home. after. another here. can imagine. right it's thursday. because you have been immersed know me well so have or. no i didn't come here to ask for transfers. came here today for mercy. and. i don't think you will live with it. i'm not. so allusion to the one thing the driver made up impulse was. to try. to keep on driving.

and this type of hearing the jury does not touch ours to liberate the verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alpha particle. brackenridge. all stepmothers. now and my thought is now that. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers is a term. that

. sean 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 going. now twelve years later i am going to meet was one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. i think clemency hearing lauren belafonte some of leave ella fattal asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of the south and he. has always been in favor of capital

punishment i didn't decide to punish but see that's you've got to remember that twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was living 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 bella fodder lauren sister lives in the town of lawton then the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown 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 sean being put to death. if. a restaurant 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. kill me for execution it was lethal injection and subtle assault on through. it was altered intravenously

he was prepped and ready to go on lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor and such a prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like and that to me was truly he didn't like a very perhaps safe come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who's there changing his 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 hit didn't get away with it

he now we. had 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 it was a killer. or as i don't think i've ever gone through it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was put to sleep like an animal like euthanize a dog or 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. shawn's biological father who had abandoned him when he was two heard about his son's coming execution. he sent him a video message from california. their pick good luck future for. her nature with her thirteenth day

of. i just can't get out there. that i could almost have the. honor of. stable enough to do this. work i am talking to you or this this way to communicate because there are. a lot of you who wish things were different. could. the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim wanders 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 ground some to death. he's still migraines are. they still moderates or. i would love to say it's not going to affect a world where the other one i put in today is. no better. this girl showed her my good. foot shoulder better not go going that mansour i don't regularly back. you

know what was your reaction when i ask you we just. just really so we'll. how cruel can you be really. facility came to my mind. i hated the chance effort. because i lived. i was i was kids 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 to look at him. grandfather died shortly after the execution.