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 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 participate in it now my aim is to meet all the people aboard revolved in the execution of sean sellers. this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. cameras in three. thousand three.

hundred stores we. chose to. nine hundred nine when this interview took place. most people around here you know all this season did you in all the season chains wars cry. so. all you can see is a summer's herzog but. someone is killed somebody. that someone is dangerous did you with the person did the person deserves to die. yet. i don't blame the.

exhibit this is what. the only people who really really. have. to want to see me did the people i've heard believe her story she knows what i did and i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those legal have a right to be angry with me those people have a right to what we did if i ever hurt you why do you want me to do. when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his step father leave.

their birds here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in their home shown showed them with his stepfather scum. he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when the teenager was arrested. 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. his accomplice in the convenience store shooting. richard. would tell the police that they killed just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. as evidence even. everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant. 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. tragedy.

in one thousand nine hundred seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemned to death in the united states in the past fifty years. over the thirteen years following his sentencing 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 shaun's lawyers try in vain to get a retrial. psychiatrist him to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one of the time of the trial shown now an adult writes books attacking occultism. thousands 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 it is here it. came. to the street to believe no one is there. to. 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 of last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. but.

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. 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 day. signifies whether man. will grant

mercy or deny mercy and after knowing sean. the first one as i have for ten years. in all of my being he is one should be granted mercy and if he is denied mercy i feel it is justice. and i fear for our state yes decide that it's ok to murder a sixteen year old boy kill a person. or something for a crime they've committed if i fear or fear for what scope we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize. better ways to handle this. experience. go arrest the world based. on sound sellers attorney as i'm sure you've heard of no man should ever have to shoulder that a monstrous early human life. as you know shawn was

sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that shawn 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 a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a metal toilet in a windowless room smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day often twenty four and if he's not executed held will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence is it better than annoying gave 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. and i ask you about clemency if not now we're. not showing sellers who. on sellers was on a dark. desolate death row. very dark on that

row finding angle. please don't extinguish them on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their piece. the parents and children of lee belafonte shawn stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them on lorna know well at least son and daughter.

i'm here to guy. just become my father for almost thirteen years my family has remained silent allow him to just phones and courts. now after all of those times we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence clinging to you throughout the deaths. of song sellers to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back before my stepmother. and 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 content is allowed fifteen minutes to play his case. hardened morgan how we can baby. that by. the.

end of something of what you've heard today and. not heard. another. can imagine. would have saved a. because you didn't have been immersed know me whatsoever. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here to beg for mercy. i don't think you will live or make up with it if. i'm not. so allusion to that i think that i can make the eagles lie. have to try in time and i have to keep on.

in this type of hearing the jury does not retired to deliberate the verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll sketch. at this time ruby smith. ronald more than you know and my thought is now. the song. this time be clemency hearing.

it's. 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 has 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. at the clemency hearing. some of lee bell a photo 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 that twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a fitting punishment for the crime he committed because i happen to agree with it. is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. hope well bellefonte lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine 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 sean being put to death. he was strapped 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. commit the execution and it was lethal injection so it was all done through. it was altered intravenously

he was prepped and ready to go when lange down and the warden was in there and some doctor and so a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy to go it seemed like and that to me it was totally conceivable he didn't like afraid perhaps he'd come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who. has an execution. both. his guests the prison guests and his family members and the victims' family members. it's the only opportunity you're going to have to go see i got you he didn't

get away with it now or even. the humanized him. and i had to for my own peace of mind i had to look for what it was a killer. i don't think you have ever gone through. it was painless for him. for he was like an animal like euthanize a dog or cat but it was actually probably far more humane.

and realized that the execution would also claim other victims family. shuns 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. they'll

take good look for sure for. certain mid term this is kind of thirteenth day of. i just can't get back there if you perform. i don't think i could almost have the. honor of. stable enough to do this. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with me i can't i can't stand. a love you wish things were different. good bye. the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim 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 vonda and now the state was about to put his only grandson to death. he's still migraines are. they still. i would love to say it's going to affect a world where the other when they put him to death. but no better. it's going to go to good. put the show to death is not going to bring that man sir i don't believe. you

know what was your reaction when i was just. i just really so we'll. have cruel can you be really. has children came to my. i hated that janet's effort. because i live chan. and was always good to me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken and economy theory i couldn't bear to look at. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution.

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