but skeptics a point to the bitter disillusionment that followed the fall of egypt's dictator. e.u. leaders that rushed to hold talks with officials from libya's new government as the transitional council names several nato nations as a favorites for a lucrative oil contract and headlines coming up in less than half an hour but first our special report looks at life after the 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'd be in rock there with bells you know ringing it because it's payback it's it's it's you know

whatever but when it's someone that that you have and you care about and you did the same you know for the one that he'll. it's mixed emotions it's it's unexplainable. it's sad. it's. so. 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 these. do i feel responsible for helping you in fusion yeah. do i feel bad about it no now do i feel bad for the grieving that did jim and. debbie went through yes. i feel sorry for their loss i do i feel horrible they lost more than i did. today lost vonda and sean i just lost my father did they lose more you bet grandfather jim 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. that person i tried not to think about it like that because i didn't want to think about it but i was so angry i still wanted it to go. and i have great remorse sometimes for that. most of the time thinking about it it's done. deal done and over ten years i've not had to worry.

what is just doesn't happen what if he gets out of the kids out the mayor worry about that good job. i had no worries seniors done closure. lorna know well we're not be only ones present a chance execution that night there were also those who had tried to save him.

jones execution left scars on his lawyer steve press and. executive. steve still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. rationalizing in final appeals of the condemned he has lost eleven of the men 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 well the only reason that we haven't is part of this 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 you know what. a horrible. process it is.

i don't know until one of their own family members has to go through it and 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 and 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 shot seller because he was a party guy that actually he was not adult at. work or

when you first jamie jamie any. thing you know shon. thought of while remembering that exchange. with twenty flash bangs. was involved in all morning. i was involved in approximately fifteen. proximately sixteen 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 brought johnny and then and he would yes if he 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 today if and we kept him on death row nto such time as it was time to execute him and then we executed once they come through that though were they no good. they're going to get on not i will 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 chemicals 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 ad execution chamber with a payment of six. officers restrained all when they first come out of the so they have this look on it if you've known him 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 and you walk mokhtar 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 that is canada and the strap down team just reached up 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 certainly lay on the gurney and they look at you like you can you know have come sort of empty and we want to do that. you know and they get up there in the will you when we do now you know when would you lay down here put your hand put your arms. to know ask why are you doing that 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 you know like they want to say bye or say some i just don't look at him just i would look at him and i would look at so much

i don't want anything someone cries to mohmed out that point toward oh say let the execution began before he says that he waits a little bit and that way for the governor in case the governor called and that will last the 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 individuals are dead now. and. it's a humbling experience i mean you at times just disbelief you know . because some of them i know for ten 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 you know he's done something to somebody did all this that you're taking some guy and stripping 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 horrible nightmares that he won't do no good to tell you because you would not 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 you go and you kill three people in this county wouldn't give you the death penalty that hopefully somebody else will. do. the

district attorney's arguments always had the backing of the public. the onion olding d.a. is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. i hear this in the execution yourself know what. horrors my son is knows not much you know why jobs a prosecutor bring the charges present throughout our lives and our usual death penalty i don't. satisfaction or joy. is a nurse or law hopefully. model law my fellow law enforcement people move to agree

he lives only target. goodness and of listeners just. like you say you hope that it is a deterrent it means it is not proven well if we. there's no way i know of for you 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 very in the twelve years since sean's execution oklahoma's crime rate has not decreased.

right now no worry or who crime is on who was not impressed and especially directed at young women and children and. i can explain to you of wives having american crimes are very horrible crimes i don't know how to explain it. we've seen had several cases filed in this county were more friend her husbands used to smash the baby against a wall and i don't want to live. the person could do that until a baby. a crime was that we're dealing with i don't want rehabilitation work. i think if you commit these horrible

horrible crimes. host beyond redemption how did teach somebody to. let him lead serrano. because. if people only each other there would be conclusive.

you can. eat. the. meat. fish eat eat eat eat a little was. the big. thing. 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 test for a test 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.

does that scripture justify what we're doing today not now 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 i 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 a laugh and how to have life in christ. do you believe in god. much do you fear his judgment you know what well more so. and so rush or him. using it as a 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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breaking news this hour. rebel forces say nato is now pounding gadhafi compound in tripoli from the air the rebel council claims that they are in control of most of the libyan capital after the alliance of backed advanced while loyalists say they hold only a small part of one of gadhafi sons a safe was really reported to have been arrested has made a surprise appearance in tripoli claiming that the rebel forces that backbone has been broken. independent journalists at the rixos hotel in tripoli tell our t.v. feel under siege and are in danger of what's happening outside. opposition supporters rejoice hoping the forty one year old regime is nearing a dead end but skeptics point to the bitter disillusionment that followed the fall of egypt's dictator. and e.u. leaders who rushed to hold talks with officials from libya's new government as a transitional.