several nato nations as favorites for lucrative oil contracts. more news in less than half an hour and next hour special report looks at life after death penalty in the u.s. . sister debbie lives 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 noel and laura knew her well. we're all for justice if it be anyone. you know we've been right there with bells you know ringing it because it's payback it's been it's you know whatever but when it's someone that that you care about and

you did the same you know. it's mixed emotions it's it's unexplainable. it's sad and. it's. it's. uncalled for. and. so waste. he was the last. part of me. and my sister in his car. he was my sister's child she's gone now he's gone now they're all. in that societies. do i feel responsible for helping in fusion yeah. do i feel bad

about it you know. now do i feel bad for the grieving. jim. they lost. lost and sean i just lost my father. grandfather jim. refused to come to the execution on february fourth one thousand nine hundred. six minutes to die.

just so. the. person. because i didn't want to. and i have great times for. most of the. it it's done it. is yours had to worry. it's what is just as nap and what if he gets out of the kids out the mayor worry about the good things i had no worries teen years.

present a chance execution not night there were also those who had tried to save him. jones' execution left scars on his lawyer steve press an.

example. steve still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. specializing in final appeals of the condemned he has lost eleven of the man he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them. and we hear so many people who support the death penalty saying well it's part of our system we have it. the only reason that we haven't is part of of the system is because they act 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 hand what. a horrible. process it is. they don't know until one of their own family members has to go through it and then suddenly there. they see everything wrong with. that case and

others that i've done but seans because i was pretty close to. destroyed my faith in the american legal system before doing death row cases i had the highest confidence in our courts in our law enforcement because 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. vemma not only against these people on death row two to extinguish their lives and ignoring good evidence and ignoring constitutional violations. that just took it out of me. made me it's made me better i'm burned out. i really

dislike the system i dislike being a lawyer. that's what it is that. steve no longer attends the execution. 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 the death sentences.

the simplest way is to run an ad in the local newspaper looking for officers who participated in the execution. problem or. you know a member shontelle or because he was a party guy that actually he was not adult at. work or when you first jamie jamie. no shon. thought of while remembering that exchange. with twenty.

was involved in all morning. i was involved in approximately fifty two. proximately sixty execution. fred cooke who 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 have just a key had big to go he had but i mean you know he is

guilty he he done it they were no two ways of bad it and. so nice interesting but they if and we kept him on death row nto such time as it was found a cure demon and we executed. once they come through that there were they know. they don't have to get on that day well they no two ways about it and so there it is crawl up on title. what was going through sean's mind during his final moments. when an execution takes place. injected from this room through these holes in the wall the state 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. lane was one of the guards that would strap them to the gurney. dark as well. jane would bring the lethal chemical and see that the execution ran smoothly. for the oldest procedure. eight nine minutes before the execution is scheduled we're moving from one they say

oh take the men's add execution chamber with a payment of six. all service try and all when they first come out of this so they have this look on all your city for if you've known for twenty years and be known for a long time they have this look. disbelief that you're going to be one of them that's going to walk i'm in there you know hank you know legard he anything golden or like a man they wish he was somebody else you wish he was somebody who knows. and bias said you walk a motor 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 but as far as you know same one individual that once they entered the door to the chamber the nerves got to him so bad that they became weak in the knees you know they use

canada and the strap down team's history step and grabbed him by the arm and you know just held him up in a system on to the gurney and they look at you like for some direction you know sir can you lay on the gurney and i look at you like you can you know i've come sort of and i'm telling people to do that. you know and they get up there and the what he what we do now you know when would you lay down here put your hand put your arms. and know asked why are you doing. and you can tell nothing you can answer him you just got to keep doing it and once you get him strapped down and they look at you and you know i've had him look at me you know like they want to say bye or say some i just don't look at him just a would look at him and i would look at so much i don't want to try anything so mom cries some i'm doubt that point toward i'm sorry let the execution began before he says that he waits

a little bit and that way for the governor in case to governor call and that will last only way that the execution could be stopped if the governor calls at that point and at that time they will start administering the drugs into a system you have that moment of time to think you know how to talk to that individual forty five minutes ago that individual dead now. and. it's a humbling experience i mean you. at times it's just disbelief you know . because some of them i know for tune twelve fourteen years. you will never forget about it you think about it until the day you know. headed fix you how can that not affect you that you're taking some guy even though he's done something to somebody did all this that you're taking some guy and stripping him down in basically you're putting me to death because you're part of the whole

process of doing it but yeah it bothers me to this day i had nightmares i wake up waiting i wake up with edible nightmares that he won't do no good to tell you because you would 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 sean. he 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 during 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 these jurors are saying look if 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 have the backing of the public one.

may see the onion olding da is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. i have seen the execution yourself know what. horrors my son's knows not much know what jobs a prosecutor bring the charges represent their lives and are usually death penalty i don't think. so treasure joy. is a nurse or law hopefully. model loma fellow law enforcement people move to agree he lives only turns and goodness and if it isn't it's just.

you say you hope that it is a deterrent it brings it is not proven well if we. there's no way i know of a figure when you stop someone of news of. the much fear 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 there in the twelve years since sean's execution oklahoma's crime rate has not decreased. right now don't worry or who crime as on who was not impressed and

especially directed to young women and children and. i can explain to you why is having. america crimes are very horrible crimes i don't know how to explain it. we've seen had several cases filed in this county where a war friend her husband's smashed a baby against a wall and i don't want to live as a. person could do that until a baby. a crime was that we're dealing with i don't rehabilitate work. i think if you commit these horrible horrible crimes. oh most beyond redemption

how he had to teach some money too. until lancer on. his. if people only each other there would be collusion. can. eat. the. meat. fish

eat eat eat eat was. the big. word. 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 to pastor don't duncan accompanied sean and many other prisoners both men and women in their final moments now he no longer carries out this mission. there's that scripture justify what we're doing today. now why are we doing it today because we like 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 did. do i regret no help the person not that i was in favor of putting that person to death nothing was going to stop that i was there to help that person and so 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 law. and how to have life in christ.

do you believe in god or much do you fear his judgment you know what well more so. and so rush or him. using those the chance that god is against death penalty.

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. in oklahoma the mortal remains not claimed by family are buried in the little cemetery in front of the penitentiary.

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