we'll go. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. our five thirty pm here in the russian capital without breaking news for you this hour libyan rebels reportedly gained control of the capital after a major nato backed a bronze but sources in tripoli see it's too early to say that could offer his regime has fallen with reports that one of his son is currently leading troops into the heart of the city. opposition supporters rejoice forty year old regime is nearing a dead end point but bitter but followed the fall of egypt's dictator. and the international reaction ranges from the euphoria to out right caution and

concern over the likelihood of an unstable rebel government torn apart by competing interests. and as of the headlines next stay with us it's the first part of our special report which looks at the life after the death penalty in the united states . 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 of the death penalty acts like a poison on all those who participate in it now my aim is to meet all the people of were involved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. the cameras cameras in three. cars and three. football players are louis. ok. sean was twenty nine when this interview took place. most people around here are in on all this season year when all they see the chains

and warriors cry. if all you can see is that someone is heard by. someone is killed somebody. or someone is dangerous. you are the person did that person. i don't blame. he said this is what. the usual relieved relieved. our right. to was the media and people i've heard of even worse during the years when i didn't i was sixteen years old those we'll have a right to hate me the legal have a right to be angry with me those people have a right or a good 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 vonda and lee were sleeping in

a home shown 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. the 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 sellers' 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. seans 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 to be put to death. in

one thousand eighty 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 a mcalister penitentiary. anything 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. psychiatrists 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 receives thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation get exhausted all legal recourse. are we deliver it is here it i gave her most of the streets to believe you know what is there it is you know. nothing to die actually. am.

three days after meeting sean i sit in on a 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. but. steve presson sean's 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 a governor makes the decision on his own activists against the death penalty and friends of show our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this state. signifies whether we. pray of mercy or generally are safe and after they always show. first or as i have for ten years. all of my being is one should 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 it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something or right.

right right 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 and to execute. experience is. stored in the rest the world phrase. and so on sellers of turning as i'm very important no man should ever have to shoulder that of months early in life. and as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that sean so or should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that after 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 often twenty four and if he's not executed health will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence and that better than why did his victims many so not

no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment shawn has been punished and is being punished and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now where. if not soldiers who are on sellers' lives on a dark. that's what death row very dark on that road leads up finding and. he's going extinguishment on. you. or. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace.

the parents and children of leave belafonte to shawn stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them or lauren and the well at least son and daughter. i'm here to guy. just. for almost thirteen years. style it allowed me just. the courts. and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence when

you think do you. have strong powers to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back i was not mother and can never fill the void in my heart. as sellers must be executed for the brutal crime he committed this is a punishment this is not. and can. that convention is a lot of fifteen minutes to plead his case. argue

. that i. know something of what you heard today because i know you come. after. another. can imagine. right. because you have been immersed you will so have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today for mercy.

i don't think you will live with it if. i'm not. so illusion of the thing and i can meet up with people's lives. to try in trying to keep. in this type of hearing the jury does not charge deliberating the verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board i also thought equally other. than bragging rights

now. i'll step mother this time. the. final word now and my thought is now. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers his attorney. shawn 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 was one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. clemency hearing lauren belafonte oh some of leave ella fattal as that show may be executed lauren is a true man of the south and he. has always been in favor of capital punishment i didn't decide the punishment you got to remember that other people decided that was his punishment that was a bidding punishment for a crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it it is this is a side subject that's that's.

that's good for me. it's well bella father lawrence sister lives in the town of lot and then the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma the families of the victims have the right to view the execution. well 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 to his side and they had run an i.v. which was how they were born to. kimathi execution it was lethal injection that was all done through. it was altered intervene it's like he was prepped and ready to go on lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor. said if you prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like and that to me was totally he didn't walk upright perhaps they've come to terms with his fate he gets

a list of everyone who's there attending his execution both for his guests in the prison because and 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 gotcha he didn't get away with all he now where he. had reached a point where i guess that the 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 could have 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 cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lower and realized that the execution would also claim other victims shawn'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. their pick good look for. her nature and this with her third day of. i just can't get back there feel her. i don't think i could almost have the. stable enough to do this. ok i'm talking to you or this this way to communicate because they're worried.

i love you which they were never. could buy. the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim saunders 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 well great so. i would love to say it's going to affect me a world where they are when i put him to death. but i know better. this girl will go to a good set. of food shelter there's not go wrong with my answer i don't really know greg. you know what was your reaction when i asked we just. all just really so well. how cruel can you be really. facility so to came to my mind. i hated that chance effort. because i lived there. and was always gets me.

as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken and it kind of scary i couldn't bear to think. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. great for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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