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next hour a special report looks at life after death penalty in the u.s. . the cells 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 have ever since the night of his execution i have been convinced that the death penalty acts like a cloisonne on all those who participated in it now my aim is to meet all the people of were involved in the execution of sean sellers. this is where shown seller spent the last thirteen years of his life.

the camera cameras and three. thousand three. football players or leave. ok. sean was twenty nine when this interview took place. most people around here are you know all this season here when you always see the chains and warriors crying. and if all you can see is this summer's version of hurt. someone is killed somebody

. is somewhat dangerous the you are the person did a person. i don't blame. he said this is what. the only legal relieve relieve. our right. to was the media and people i've heard believe her story the first one i didn't i was sixteen years old those we'll have a right to hate those legal have a right to be angry with me those people have a right for a period if i ever heard you might want to do.

when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. their birds here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vons and lee were sleeping in their home shown shot them with his stepfather scum. 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. is 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 and 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 in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. i think it's rather tragedy that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits a crime can be put to death. in

one thousand nine hundred seventy 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 sentencing shawn 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 a. psychiatrist claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one at the time of the trial shown now in adults writes books attacking

occultism you see stars and of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation get exhausted all legal recourse. or whatever it is a. i gave her most of the streets to believe no it is or it is you know that they created. am.

three days after meeting sean i sit in on the clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is jones' last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. steve presson shown as new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution . of five members of the jury selected by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not sean sellers should be hardened. in the end the 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. are all praying the first day or two knowing or see it after they always show. first one as i have for two years. in all of my kids one should be a great person. and if used in i'd mercy i feel it is justice for you i fear for our state yes it's right that it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something first right. right right here fear for what it's go we're not the wild wild west it's time to realize that there are better ways to handle this and to execute it so it's here

it's. snowing the rest the world thinks. i'm fond sellers of turning under your pardon no man should ever have to shoulder out of a month early in life. as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not inside sean sellers should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years john slept 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 and if he's not executed health will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence and the better the morning gave his victims many say not no one can credibly argue that a prison is not punishment shawn has been punished is being punished and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now when.

if not so incident. on sellers lives on a dark. that's not the throw very dark on that road he did so finding and all these don't extinguish on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their piece. but the parents and children of lee bell a photo 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 big enough. for almost thirteen years i've been waiting for a million stylin allowing me just this. and the courts. now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence pleading to you throughout the deaths. of song powers to go forward and executed. yes occasional sellers will not bring my father back or my sister mother 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. that convention is a lot of fifteen minutes to play in his case. it's. hard for you to know. that i.

know something of what you heard did you come. after. another hear. him mention. what i say today. because you have been immersed know me well so have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. in her bid for mercy. i don't think you will live with it if. i'm not so

allusion to the anatomy of people's. trial in time to keep on from. there. and this type of hearing the jury does not but charge 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.

from. now on my list now. this time the clemency hearing for son sours is a term. for. this. child is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case has been closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution life is going on. 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. either clemency hearing lauren belafonte son of lee bell a federal asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of the south he. has always been a theater of capital punishment. i didn't decide the punishment see that's you got to get twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a bidding punishment food climate committee. because i happen to agree with it it is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me.

lawrence sister lives in the town of lot and center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma the families of victims have the right to view the execution. and her family came to the penitentiary to watch shawn being put to death. if. he was struck down through a table with his arms out his side and they had run an i.v.

which was how they were going to. command the execution it was lethal injections it was all done through. it was altered intravenously he was practised right again when 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. it seemed like and that to me it was totally he didn't like a very perhaps he'd come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who's there to be his execution both. his guests in the prison because 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 catch him didn't get away with it now or even 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 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 a slave 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. shawn's biological father who had abandoned him when he was two heard about his son's coming execution. he sent them

a video message from california. there they go to the future for. her and me turn this is her third day of. kicking back their favor or. that i could almost have the. honor if we stay one of the do this. work i am talking to your this this or to communicate with me i care because there are. a lot of you who wish they were different. could.

the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim wonders 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 going to affect a woman where they are when they put him to death. but i know better.

this girl showed her my good self. could show that there's not going that way and sir i don't regularly back to back. you know what was your reaction when i ask you we just. i just really so will. i have cruel can you be really. fast so real so to came to my mind. i hated that chance effort. because i lived chan. and was i was kids me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken

every committee hearing i couldn't bear to look at him. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution.

today violence is once again flared up. these.