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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 moore involved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where shown seller spent the last thirteen years of his life. the there are cameras in three. cars and three. football players or are we. ok. channels twenty nine months interview took place. with. most people around here you know all the season to throw in all the see the chains and bars crying.

oh. yeah it's all you can see is this summer's herzog but. someone is killed somebody. is somewhat dangerous. you are the first good person. but. i don't blame the. existing one. the only people who really really. have. to want to see me did. people. believe her story the first one i didn't i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those people have a right to get angry with me those people have a right good if i ever hurt you the life you want me to.

when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vulgar and his step father leave. their birds here in eastern oklahoma. yes. 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's gun has always claimed that he

committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when the teenager was arrested he admitted to 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. shawn's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in that mounting the death sentence. think it's raw tragedy that in the united states a sixteen yo when he commits a crime.

in one thousand nine hundred 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 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 shawn's lawyers try in vain to get

a retrial. psychiatrists seem to have brought to light psychological disorders that were no one of the time of the trial shown now on adults writes books attacking the cultures of. these 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 here. i came. to the streets to believe no it's here it is you know. that 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 shown as last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. for life. steve presson 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 sean cellar should be pardoned.

in the end the governor makes that decision on his old. activists against the death penalty and friends of sean are present to ask that his life be spared. to me this. signifies whether me and. grant mercy or dinners and after they always show. up first or as i have for ten years. all of my is what i should be grateful for seeing. and if used in i'd mercy i feel it is justice. here for our state it's just right that it's ok to murder a sixty year old. person. for something for right. right right here here for what scope we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize

that there are better ways to handle this than to execute. it's here and it's. going to rest the world things. unfold sellars attorney as i'm sure you burden 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 song so or 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 metal toilet and a wonder was from 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 he'll will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence and the better the more you gave his victims many say not but no one can credibly argue that

a prisoner is not punishment sean has been punished and is being punished and will be punished. and i ask you about clemency if not now when. if soldiers who are. on sellers' lives on the dark. that's what death row early are on that road leads up finding and the police don't extinguish their fun. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace. the parents and children of lee bella five to sean step father are here to demand

that the execution be carried out. among them are lauren and the well at least son and daughter. i'm here to die. just for my father for almost thirteen years i've remained silent allowing it's just phones and the courts. now after all of us are shocked to find ourselves in your presence clinging to you to allow the deaths. of song sellers to go forward. executed.

the execution the sellers will not bring my father back or my sister or 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 nothing. that convention is allowed fifteen minutes to plead his case.

that i. know something of what you heard did you own. that heard. another. can imagine. what i saved the day. because you have been immersed know me well so have. no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today from mercy.

i don't think you will live with him. i'm not so listen to that not me that was not. i have to try in time to keep on. in this type of hearing the jury does not retired deliberating a verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically. now. i'll step mother this time.

now and my thought is now. please. this time the clemency hearing or sound sars is adjourned. for. this. child is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case has been closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution and life has gone on. 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 oh some of lee belafonte asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of a self. he has always been a favor of capital punishment i didn't decide the punishment see that's you've got to remember that twelve people decided that was his punishment that was a fitting punishment food crime he committed. because i happen to agree with that it uses as a side subject that's that's. that's

good for me. it well bella thought of lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton and center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma 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. if.

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 it was lethal injection it was all through it was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to gallon lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor. said he prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy to go it seemed like and that to me it was readily he did whatever i perhaps he came to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who was there to ending his execution both

for his guests and the prison guests 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 he didn't get away with it and now we. have reached 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 he was a killer. or else i don't think i could have ever gone through it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was

a slave like an animal like euthanize a dog or cat but it was actually probably far more humane. noel than lauren realized that the execution would also claim other victims sean's family.

sean's biological father who had abandoned him when he was to heard about his son's coming execution. he sent them a video message from california. there are things going to look for sure for. certain mentor and this is kind of certain if they have. to skip out there feel heard. go there go get them or have the. hummer for you stay one of the. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with i can't stand. alone be who wish they were a different. goodbye. the

execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim going to 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 still migraines or. he still was great so. i would love

to say it's going to affect way one way or the other when i put him to death. but i don't know whether. this girl showed her my good self. put the show to death is not going to bring that man sir i don't regularly go back . you know what was your reaction when i was with just. i just really so well. how cruel can you be really. special room so it came to my mind. i hated that janet's effort. because i lived and. he was i was considering. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken

at a committee hearing i couldn't bear to think and. grandfather died shortly after the execution. mission is. going to take three months for charges free. arrangement

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