fighting in libya still rages on a western oil companies have already started circling around the violent storm country it once again sparks concern the so-called battle for democracy was a war for black gold all along. as we had lines here on our team my colleague. on the situation in libya in half an hour's time before that though bring your especial report about life after death row 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 had been anyone arabs you know we'd been right there with bells you know ringing move on 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. 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 you excuse me yeah. do i feel bad about it. now do i feel bad for the grieving the jim and. debbie went through yet. i feel sorry for their loss i do i feel horrible they lost more than i did they lost vonda and sean i just lost my father did they lose more you bet grandfather jim jones and 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 saw. i saw. a person i tried not to think about that. because i didn't want to think. but i was so angry i still wanted it to go. and i had great remorse sometimes for. most of the thinking about it it's gone. years i had to worry.

what it just doesn't happen what if he gets out of the kids out the mayor worry about the job. i had no worries teen years done closure. lorna know well we're not the 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 this 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 and our law enforcement because i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the courts and 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 in ignoring constitutional violations.

that just took it out of me. made me it's made me bitter 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 and i want to first jamie jamie any. thing you know shon.

thought of while i remember that exchange. when twenty plus. was involved in all morning. i was involved in approximately fifteen. proximately sixteen executions. fred cook who was in charge of sean's execution his father also executed prisoners in the electric chair fred is retired now

but about charmian and he would yes a key had big he had but i mean you know he is guilty he he done it they were no two ways of bad it and. so i say interesting that 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 that . they don't have to get on not they 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. in checked it 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 i'll take the men's ad execution chamber with a payment of six. officers restrained all when they first come out of this they have this look on like i said 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 else and when you said 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 they use 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 you know sir can you lay on the gurney and i look at you like you can you know i've come sort of in until 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. and 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

one thing 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 call then 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 the 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'll 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 mothers 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 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 you kill three people in this county we can give you the death penalty that hopefully somebody else will. do. the district

attorney's arguments always had the backing of the public. may see the un yelled and da is now retired and lives on his farm a few miles from oklahoma city. i hear you sing the execution yourself know what. horrors my sons knows not much you know why jobs a prosecutor bring the charges represent their lives and our usual death and i don't think it serves frazier joy. to bitterness or law hopefully. model law my fellow law enforcement people move to

agree that he lives only target. goodness and if it isn't it's just. you say you hope that it is a deterrent it means it is not proven well of me. 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 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 present and especially directed in young women and children and. i can explain to you why is having and when it occurs the crimes are very horrible crimes i don't know how to explain it. we've seen heard several cases fun of this county where a war friend or husbands smashed a baby against a wall and i don't want to live that. 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. homo beyond redemption how he had to teach somebody to. let him lead serrano. because. if people only each other there would be collusion.

can. eat. the. meat. fish eat eat eat eat eat at. the ticket. 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 target we have 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 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 why we're so. and so rush or him. using that 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.

twenty years ago the largest country in the world to see two races of. what had been more children to each began a journey. where did it take them. to

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nato planes have reportedly carried out air strikes on the libyan capital these are the latest pictures of explosions that you can see now heavy clashes between rebels and government forces have again resumed in tripoli as both sides continually claim to have the. also down to cost over whether a rebel victory would actually leave the libyan people in control of their destiny as experts point to egypt where those who fought for the revolution ended up with the government or they did not shoot. even before the fate of tripoli is sealed great bradley. western oil companies are starting around the country concerns of the for the so-called bottle the democracy whether it was a war for black gold.