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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 participated and that now my aim is to meet all the people of moore 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 in three. football players or leave. ok. last. channels twenty nine months interview took place. with. most people around here you know all the season just ruin all the see the chains the warriors crying. in baseball you can see is this summer's herzog but. some of those killed somebody . is somewhat dangerous. you were the first good person.

i don't blame. he said this is what. illegal relieved really. had. to was he needed. people for believing her story the first one i didn't i was sixteen years old those who have a right to hate those people have a right to be a he would be those people have a right good if i ever heard you might want to. thank you.

when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. they're buried here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at a local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in the home shown showed 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. as 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 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. sean's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in the mounting the death sentence. i think it's rather tragedy that in the united states a sixteen yo when he commits a crime.

in one thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemns to death in the united states in the past fifty years . over the thirteen years following his sentencing shawn grew up in 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. psychiatrists seem to have brought to light psychological disorders that were unknown of the time of the trial shown now on adults writes books attacking the cult as it. sees thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation it

exhausted all legal recourse. we got over it is here. i came. to the streets to believe the wizard and its you know. the truth. 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. with. steve preston shown his 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 shown seller should be pardoned. if in the end the governor makes the decision on his own activists against the death penalty and friends of sean are present to ask but his life be spared.

to me this state. signifies whether me. really great mercy or dinner in our city and after they always show. the first ones i have for two years. all of my kid is going to ship the grain to percy and if used in i'd mercy i feel it is justice. here for our state yes just i think it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. or something for it right. right right here here for what it's go we're not the wild wild west it's time to realize there are better ways to handle this than to execute. experience. knowing the rest of the world based. on sound sellers and turning

those under your burden no man should ever have to shoulder at a very few months early in life. and as you know shawn was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say the chancellor should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years on a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a mouth 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 on just such an existence and that better than what i gave his victims and they say not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment sean has been punished is being punished and will be punished. i ask you about clemency if not now where. you're not showing sellers who are.

on sellers' lives on a dark. desolate death row very dark on that road and it's a finding and the police don't extinguisher on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims at the say their case. the parents and children of lee belafonte sean stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lauren and the well at least son and daughter.

i heard a guy. just become not far from us thirteen years. remained silent allowing to just phones and their courts. and now after all of us time we are stuck. in your presence pleading to you so what the jets. have sunk hours to go forward on the law and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father patrick or monster mother. it can never fill the void in my life. as tellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not

a vengeance. it condenses is allowed fifteen minutes to play his case. it's. hard to know. that.

and something of what you heard did you. after. another year. can imagine. what i did. because you didn't have any mercy on you and so have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today for mercy and. i don't think you will live with it. i'm not. so listen to that not me and. to try

out in time to keep on from now on. but. in this type of hearing the jury does not return it's deliberating a verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll step mother at this time. ronald more than now and my thought is now.

this time the clemency hearing for shannon sellers his attorney. shawn is dead. for the state of oklahoma because it's been closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution and life has gone amuck . 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 lauren belafonte son of lee bella fattal asked that sean 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 see that you got twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a fitting punishment food crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it. is this is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it's. lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton and center of oklahoma.

she also waited thirteen years impatiently for sean to be executed. homa the families of the victims have the right to view the execution. and her family came to the penitentiary to watch 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 on connect the execution it was

lethal injection that was all done through it it was aldridge readiness like he was prepped and ready to go in lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor and some of his prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy again it seemed like and that to me it was readily he didn't like a very perhaps he came to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who changed his execution both. his guests in prison 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 my crotch and he didn't get away with it and now we. had raised 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 it was a killer. or as i don't think i could have ever gone through it was painless for him i didn't suffer he was pretty sleep like you know like euthanize a dog or cat but it was actually probably far more humane.

noel and lauren realized that the execution would also claim other victims sean's family. sean's 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. there

are things going to the future for. certain in terms of his current third wolf they have. to get back their feet per. their guy could almost have the. honor if we stay one of the. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with me i care i can't stand. alone i wish they were different. but by. the execution was a terrible ordeal for shawn's grandfather jim wanders 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 moderates or. i would love to say it's going to affect a world where the other when they put him to death or death but i don't know whether. he's going to go to.

put the show to death or not go growing up my answer ok back i don't regularly back to back. you know what was your reaction when i was you were just. i just really so we'll. have cruel can you be really. so right jane remember. i hated that chance effort. because i lived and. he was always consider me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken at the commissary i couldn't bear to look at.

sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution. hey tom are in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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