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market finance come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause report on r.g.p. . this is the hour to do shall from moscow our top stories the battle for control of key cities resumes in libya with gadhafi is false is stepping up their fight recapture the rebels' last stronghold where their position suffered a setback from coalition forces to thirteen revenue killed. this guy. japanese officials say radiation is likely did leak from the quake at fukushima plant for the next several more months and three weeks after the tragedy began people trying to rebuild their lives feel the government isn't doing enough. and
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one of the other main news stories of the weekend the largest anti terror operation is russian security forces and killed seventeen militants and destroyed their campaign of corpses it comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the moscow metro bombings that killed the. next part two of our special documentary about the case of sean sellers and was sentenced to death at the age of sixty twelve years on since his execution we asked whether capital punishment is really the answer to crime and wonders sister debbie lives not far from the penitentiary town she too used to take care of her nephew quite low twenty vonda was out on the road well and laura knew her well. we were all for justice if it had been anyone. you know we'd been rocked there 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 you did the same you know for them one thank you. it's mix them up it's it's unexplainable. it's sad. it's. so. uncalled 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 he's gone now they're all. in that societies. do i feel responsible for helping you in execution yeah. do i feel bad about it you know now do i feel bad for the greeting the jim and and. debbie went through yeah i feel sorry for their loss do i feel 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
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and debbie refused to come to the execution on every foreign one thousand nine hundred nine six minutes to die. i don't know what i saw. i saw him and. person. because i didn't want to. but i was still angry i still wanted. and i have great remorse sometimes for us most of the time i'm not thinking about
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it it's done it's done deal done and over again years i've not had to worry it's what if the stairs nap and what if it hits our kids out and they are worried about me did this i've had no worries jane years closure. lorna know well one of the only ones present at sean's execution that night there were also those who had tried to save him.
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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 of the condemned he has lost eleven of them and he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them. here so many people who support the death penalty say well as part of our system we have it so the only reason that we haven't is parts of the system is because they will act to change it and they they support the system and it's wrong and they
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don't know why it's so they don't know first hand. or even second you know what. a horrible. process it is. i don't know when told one of their own family members has to go through it and 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 i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the courts found i thought that things were good and far and it was seeing the machinery of the state moving so venomously. vemma not only against
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these people on death row to extinguish their lives and ignoring good evidence and ignoring constitutional violations. that just took it out of me. is made me snead bitter on burned out. 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 for him as.
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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 a problem. you know i member shot seller because he was
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a party guy that actually he was not an adult at the time which. i was working on when i first. became any. thing xan. thought of while i remembered that exchange. twenty flash bangs. was involved and all morning. i was involved in approximately fifteen. proximately sixteen executions. fred cook was in charge of sean's execution his father also executed prisoners in
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the electric chair fred is retired now but about johnny and then and he would use a key big key ed. i mean you know he is guilty he he done it paid one no two ways of bad it and. so nice interesting today if and we kept him on death row nto such damage it was found a execute him and then we executed. once they come through that they were they no good. they don't have to get on not they will they know two ways about it and so. what was going through sean's mind during his final moments. when an execution
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takes place belief a 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
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as well. jane would bring the lethal chemicals and see that the execution ran smoothly. fred the oldest planned the procedure. eight nine minutes before the execution instead you were moving from the well they say i'll take the men's out execution chamber where they came of six dogs are very strained of when they first come out of the so they had this look on or thirty five if you've known for twenty years and known for one time here was look at. this belief that you're going to be one of them it's going to walk i'm in there you know here and you know legard. goldener like i'm a bit wish it was somebody you know you wish it was somebody else. and i guess if you walk them up through the gurney and they look at you because they don't know
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they've never done this before there's a sense of stress maybe nervousness. as far as you know i seen 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 they used and strapped down payment for a step and grabbed him by the arm and you know just held him up and assist in a moment on a gurney they look at you like for some direction you know sort of the way on a gurney and they look at you like you can you know i've come sort of it until we there are people who did it. you know and they you know if they're in the would you want to do you know what would you wait a hundred percent. of what you're on. to know as well why are you doing i. can't tell the answer i'm just going to keep doing. what you don't spread and maybe look at you you know i've had him look at you know like he was
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a buyer so. i just don't look at him i didn't notice i would look at him and i rather would look at so much i don't want anything so mom cried some go that point toward him say that the execution began before he says that he waits a little bit and that way for the governor in case together call and that will that's the only way that they actually should really start if the governor calls at that point and at that they'll start administering the grow a system you have that moment of kind of you know i talk about individual forty five minutes ago when individuals. and. it's a humbling experience i mean. it is just disbelief you know . because some of them i know for ten twelve fourteen year.
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you will never forget about it you think about it until the day you know. good fiction how can that not affect you that you're taking some guy even though he's done something to somebody you know as if you're taking some guy's trip we were down and basically you're putting me to death because you're part of the whole process of doing it well yeah it bothers me to this day i have nightmares i wake up waiting i wake up with herbal nightmares that he 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 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 if you go and you kill three people in this
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can't really give you the death penalty that hopefully somebody else will. do. the district attorney's arguments always had the backing of the public. bug mazie the onion olding da is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. and i have seen executives and stuff. white hot. on the doors most owners knows not much you know what jobs across here from bring the charges present players who are loans and are you for the death penalty or i don't like. satisfaction or joy.
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so i use a nurse or law hopefully. model none of the law enforcement people would agree that he lives i believe her and the other lives of lizards just. like you say you hope that it is a deterrent and so it is not proven oil of. nowhere i know of for you 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
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facts are there in the twelve years since sean's execution oklahoma's climate has not decreased. right now or oh he avoided a crime as on who was president especially directed to young women and children and. i can't explain to you why is having america problems are very horrible crimes i don't know how to exploit it. we've seen had several cases filed in this county were or friend her husband went and smashed a baby against a wall and i don't want to live. the person could do that and kill a baby. a crime was that we're dealing with i
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eat. the. meat. to eat. fish eat eat eat was the victim was. 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 we have pastor don't jump in accompanied sean 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 scripture justify what we're doing today. and. are we doing it today because we like punishing people and my life it's been it's been eight years. and now confining talk about fully talk about what i can't. do i regret you know i 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 i thought i was i would minister to the person i would talk to them i cannot do this any longer
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i can't put words in god's mouth but i don't think you would want the death penalty i think he would want us to share a laugh and how to have a laugh and cry asked. do you believe in god. do you fear his judgment you know what why were so. and so much for him. even though the chance that god is against death penalty.
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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. and oklahoma the mortal remains not claimed by family are buried in the little cemetery in front of the penitentiary.
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