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security forces have killed seventeen minutes and some destroyed accounting office and he comes on the eve of the first time of verse three of the moscow metro bombings and will say. oh stories updated when the quote from the course of. the 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 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 and that now my aim is to meet all the people up 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. thousand three. football players or leave. the. hospital. channels twenty nine months interview took place.

most people around here you know all the season to throw in all the see the chains the warriors crying. oh. you know if all you can see is that some was heard by a. kid someone is killed somebody. there's some danger is there you're the first person is or. i don't blame the. existing one. the only legal the really really. have. to was the media and people i've heard believe the worst during the years when i didn't i was sixteen years old goes we all have a right to hate those we'll have a right to be angry with we those people have

a right what we did if i ever heard you life was good. when he was sixteen sean murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave telephoto they're buried here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at a local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in their home shawn shot them

with his stepfather scum. 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. as 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 mrs 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 and defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in that mounting the death sentence. i. think it's rather tragedy that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits

a crime he puts again. 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 sentencing shawn grew up an adult in the macalister penitentiary. in these half very 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 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 cultures of. these thousands of letters that maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation if exhausted all legal recourse. to liberal is a. cave. to the streets to believe no it is or it is you know. i think of it i actually. am.

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. for life. steve presson shown his 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 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 shown for president to ask but his life be spared. to me this. signifies whether we. will grant mercy or dinner in our city and after they always show. the first ones i had for ten years. all of my is where it should be going to or see. if he is denied mercy i feel it is justice. here for our state yes it's right that it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something for. i

fear fear for what it's go 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 it's. snowing the rest of the world things. and so on sellers are turning us under your burden no man should ever have to shoulder that of a monstrous very human life. and as you know sean was sixteen years old on communities murders that's not to say the chancellor 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 windowless room smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day off and twenty four i think is not executed healthy will spend the rest of

his life in just such an existence and that's better than want to get his victims many say not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment sean has been punished is being punished and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now when. if not showing soldiers food on sellers. and dark. estimate death row very dark on that road it is a dining room and the things don't extinguish on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims at the say their case.

i think aronsen children of lead telephoto shown stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lorna know well at least son and daughter. i'm here to die. just become my father for almost thirteen years i must remain silent oh i just found so courts. now after all of us are shocked to find ourselves in your presence when you think

do you have a death. of song hours to go forward oh no i haven't executed. the executions sellers will not bring mark father back or my stepmother. it can never fill the void in my life. but sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not nothing. the convention is allowed fifteen minutes to play his case.

or you know we can pay for it. i. know something of what you heard in the know that you don't. have heard. another hear. him mention. what i did. because you have been immersed know me whatsoever. and i didn't come here to ask for justice.

came here today from mercy for me. i don't think you live wouldn't you. i'm not. so allusion of the law to make people's lives. up to try out in time to keep on. and this type of hearing the jury does not retarded deliberating the verdict is announced directly. at. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically.

now. i'll skip my this time for this. final now and not just now. this time the clemency hearing or sound sellers is adjourned. this. child 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 in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. if. after clemency hearing lauren bell a father son of lee belafonte who 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 twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a fitting punishment food climate committee. because i happen to agree with it. is this is

a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it's well bellefonte 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. and her family came to the penitentiary to watch sean being put to death. if.

he was struck down through 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 and it was lethal injection it was all done through. it was altered intravenously he was prepped and ready to gallon lying down and the word was in there and some doctor. said a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy. it seemed like and that to me was totally unthinkable he didn't walk upright or perhaps he had come to terms with his fate.

he gets a list of everyone who was there. his execution both for his guests in the prison the guests and his family members and the victims' family members it's a it's the only opportunity you're going to have to go see my crotch if he didn't get away with it and now we know i've 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 a cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lorne 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. don't think going to look for. certain in terms of his current affair with a of. his kit that there are a few. that i could almost have the. hummer if we stay one of the. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with me i can't i can't

stand. a lot of you who wish they were different. could buy. the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim vandals 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's still migraines are. they still moderates or. i would love to say it's not going to affect me one where the other one i put him to death of. but i know where. he's going to go tell my good self. put the show to death or not go and bring that man sir back i don't regularly back. you know what was your reaction when i was with you think. i just really so well. how cruel can you be really. that's so real they remember. i hated that chance effort. because our lives and. he was always 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 to think of. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. me it seems to be easier. to believe.

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