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a short cease fire between israel and hamas comes to demand once again tel aviv claims up to fourteen rockets were launched from gaza overnight forcing the jewish state to retaliate with an air strike. next here in r.t. our special report looks at slide after death penalty in the u.s. among those sister debbie lived not far from the penitentiary town she too used to take care of her nephew quite a lot when volunteer was out on the road well and laura knew her well. we're all for justice if it's been anyone arabs you know we've been right there with. bales you know ringing it on 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 this. for them thank you. but it's mixed emotions it's it's unexplainable. it's sad. it's. uncalled for. some way. he was the last. part of me. and my sister in. his car. she's gone. now they're all. in that society thing.

do i feel responsible for helping you in execution yeah do i feel bad about it. now do i feel bad for the grieving that did jim and. gabby went through yeah i feel sorry for their loss i do i feel horrible they lost in war than i did. they lost vonda and sean i just lost my father and they lose more you bet grandfather jim jones and debbie refused to come to the execution on february fourth one thousand nine hundred nine sean took about six minutes to die.

i don't know what i thought. i saw him and. person. because i didn't want to. but i was so angry i still wanted it to go. and i have great remorse sometimes for us most of the time i'm not thinking about it it's done it's done deal done and over ten years i've not had to worry it's what is just as nappy what if he gets out he gets out and they are worried

about things just i had no worries cheney years closure. not the only ones present at sean's execution that night there were also those who tried to save him. think. jones execution left

scars on his lawyer steve present. steve still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. specializing in final appeals of a condemned he has lost eleven of the men he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them. you. know here so many people who support the death penalty say well as part of our system we have a well the only reason that we have an expert is of the system just because they went back to change it and they they support the system and it's wrong and they 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 them and suddenly. they see everything wrong. with that case and others that i've done 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 is you know i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the courts. i thought that things were good and far and it was seeing the machinery of the state moving so venomously. them and i can't stand these people on death row two to extinguish their lives and ignoring good evidence and ignoring constitutional violations. and

just took it out of me. is mainly it's maybe better when i'm 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 that the executions are humane and painless. 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 their death sentences.

the simplest way is to run an ad in the local newspaper looking for officers who participated in the execution. i have no problem there. you know i member shontelle or because he was a party guy that actually he was not an adult at which it. was working or when i first. became initial. thank you note xan.

thought of while i remembered that exchange. with twenty flash bangs occasion. i was involved in all morning. i was involved in approximately fifty two executions proximately sixteen executions. fred cook was in charge of sean's execution his father also executed prisoners in the electric chair fred is retired now

but about johnny and then and he would use a key big bagel he had but i mean you know he he don't it gave him no two ways of bad it and. so nice dinner thing with a f. and we kept him on death row nto such damage it was found executed him and then we executed. once a company that they were they know. they don't have good omen they will mail to wave about it and so about it probably. what was going through sean's mind during his final moments. when an execution takes place police says are injected from miss 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 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 from the sale take the men's ad execution chamber where they came of six bob's restraint option on a first come out of a so they had this look on all your thirty five if you've known for twenty years and be known for one of the time we have this local. disbelief that you're going to be one of them but it's been a walk i'm in there you know here and you know legard me a new building or like i'm in they wish it was somebody else you wish it was somebody else. well you said you walk up to the gurney and they look at you because they don't know they've never done this before there's a sense of stress maybe nervousness. as

far as you know i've seen one individual that was 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 just kind of and the strapped down team just finished up and grabbed him by the arm and you know just held him up and assisted him own to the gurney we look at you like for some direction you go you know sort of the way on the gurney and i look at it you know like you can you know i've come sort of it until we are people who need it. you know and you know parents will what do we do now that you know i was with you way down here mr hand with your. i know asked well what are you doing i. can tell nothing from any interim i'm just going to keep doing. what you're going to stretch and they look at you and you know i've had a look at you know like they want to say buyers i saw me i just don't know that i did it just i would look at him and i would look at so much i don't want anything

so mom cries i'm i'm doubt that point towards i let the execution began before he says that he waits a little bit and that way if war the governor a case together call and that was that's the only way that the execution could be start if the governor calls at that point and at that time they will start administering the system you have that moment of time to think you know i talked to that individual forty five minutes ago many individuals. and. it's a humbling experience i mean we had time to just disbelief you know . because some of them i know for ten and twelve fourteen years. you'll never forget abetting and think about it until the day you've. had fiction and how can that not affect you don't you're taking some guy you know he's done

something to somebody did of us that you're taking some guy to strip him down and basically you're putting to death because you're part of the whole process of doing it but yeah it bothers me to lose day i had nightmares i wake up waiting i wake up with arable nightmares that he won't do no good to tell you because you would know 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.

this is oklahoma county's district attorney the man who demanded the death sentence for shaun. of macy 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. macy always claimed that the death sentence has a dissuasive effect and he reiterated that opinion jury in 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 the jurors are saying look you go and you kill three people in this 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.

may see the onion olding da is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. i hear him sing the exec you show yourself oh ha ha. on the horse my son's nose marginal was of the prosecutor bring the charges present throughout our lives and our usual left and. i don't think it serves fashion or joy. to use a nurse or law hopefully. a model none of the law enforcement people would agree that he lives i believe her oh goodness i have

a lizard's just. you say you hope that it is a deterrent it means it is not proven oil have you and the nurse know well i know of for you when you stop someone who's not. the 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 facts are very in the twelve years since sean's execution oklahoma's crime rate has not decreased.

running no worry or who crime was on who was not present especially young women and children and. i can explain to you of wives having a minor crimes are very horrible crimes i don't know how to exploit it. or if i would see had several cases one of this county were or friend or husband wants a smash a baby against a wall and i don't want to live. the person who could do that until a baby. a crime was that we're dealing with i don't rehabilitate work i think i mean committed these horrible horrible crimes. almost beyond

redemption how do you teach somebody thought whoa that's a lancer ah no. because. if people love each other there would be collusion. and.

eat. the world was written. there's a. treat eat eat was the ticket. 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 junking accompanied sean and many other prisoners both men and women in their final moments now he no longer carries out this mission . there's asker for justify what we're doing today. and. are we

doing it today because we're not punishing people in my life it's been. it's been eight years now and now i can finally talk about fully talk about what i'm here. you are regret. no help the person. not that i was in favor of putting that person to their nothing was going to stop that i was there and 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 i can't put words in god's mouth but i don't think he would want the death penalty i think he would want us to share a laugh and how to have luck and trust.

to believe in god. do you fear his judgement you know why well more so. and so much more i'm out using that as the chance that god is against death penalty.

minus. 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. the.

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