this essentially had him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him shows here in the u.s. we did see that in just a matter of a week. and lost his job as head of the i.m.f. he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically a running joke but at this point we should also mention there is a civil suit that has been filed by mr yellow against dominique strauss kahn and that many are imagining he will settle out of court if he wants this problem to just go away and that would require probably a good sum of money but at this point he's been out pretty much vindicated on all these sexual assault charges. here in the russian capital exactly nine thirty in the breaking news from libya hundreds of rebels reportedly end to the libyan leader's compound and heavy fighting in some continues your position claims to be in control of most of the

capital one of the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi remains. nato forces have been backing up rebel forces with bombing raids casualties are said to be mounting often intense fighting in the three days since the rebels and to the city. and of course we'll update you on the latest developments in libya. from now in the meantime it's our special report about life after death row in the u.s. .

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 it now my aim is to meet all the people that were 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 and three. football players or leave. ok. sean was twenty nine when this interview took place.

most people around here you know all this season here when all they see the chains and warriors crying. in pain all you can see is are some losers up by. some of the skills of buddy. if someone is dangerous. you're the person did that person is. blame. he said this is what. the usual relieved relieved. our right to was the media and people have heard the media her story the first one i didn't i was

sixteen years old both of you have a right to hate me those people have a right to be angry with me those people have a right it won't be good if i ever hurt you why do you want it. thank you. when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his stepfather leave. their birds here in eastern oklahoma.

i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in their home shown shot him with his stepfather scum. he 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.

is accomplice in the convenience store shooting was also arrested richard was shawn's friend and both boys were obsessed with satanism. the two teenagers would tell the police that they killed the grocer just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify against show in exchange for a lighter sentence. when mrs evidence even shown sellars own confessions everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant should this teenager be just 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. the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. i think it's

rather tragedy that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits a crime can be put to death. in one thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemned 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. psychiatrist claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were on no one of the time of the trial shown now in adults writes books attacking occultism receives thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation he had exhausted all legal recourse. or we deliberately did hear it i think a hearty voice for the street to believe that it was or it is you know. to die

accurately. 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. for life. steve presson shawn's new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution. and.

the five members of the jury selected by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not sean seller should be pardoned. in the end a governor makes the decision on his own activists against the death penalty and friends of show our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this state. signifies whether we. will grant mercy or generously and after they always show. first one as i have for ten years. all of my is one should agree it's personal and if used to night mercy i feel it is justice. here for our state yes it's

right it's ok to murder a sixty year old. first. or something first right. right here fear for what it's going we're not the wild wild west it's time to realize that there are better ways to handle this than to execute. experience it's. stored in the rest of the world based. on sound sellers of turning under your burden no man should ever have to shoulder that up three months early in life. and as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not inside the song so it 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 mile toilet and

a wunderlist 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 help will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence and that better than i want to gave his victims many so not no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment shawn has been honest is mean and will be honest. i ask you about clemency if not now when. if not soldiers who are on sellers' lose on a dark. as some of the throw very dark on that road finding angle please don't extinguish them on. thank you.

for. curing the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace. of parents and children of leave belafonte to sean stepfather are here to demand that the execution be carried out. among them are lorna know well at least son and daughter. i'm here to guy. just become i thought i. was thirteen years my family is remarried style it allowed me just this. and the courts.

and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves in your presence what you think do you. have sunk hours to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father back mother. it can never fill the void in my life. most sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not. a convention it is a lot of fifteen minutes to play his case. if

they are to fortunately. for. him i. know something of what you heard her did you come. back her. another year. can imagine. what i say today. because you have been immersed know me well so have or.

no i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here today for mercy. and. i don't think you will live or make up with it. i'm not. so allusion to the one thing about making the people's lives. up to try out in time to keep on from. there. and this type of hearing the jury does not protect our still operating verdict is

announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll step mother at this time. now and my thought is now going to be. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers is adjourned. this. sean is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case has been

closed for a long time. but for all those who witnessed his execution life is gone. now twelve years later i am going to meet was one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state. clemency hearing lauren belafonte some of leave ella fattal asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of the south he. has always been in favor of capital punishment i didn't decide the punishment see that's you've got to remember that twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was fitting punishment for

a crime he committed. because i happen to agree with it if he uses the side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it well bella father lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. homa the families of victims have the right to view the execution. and her family came to the penitentiary to watch shawn being put to death.

if. he was struck down to the 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 that was altered. it was altered intravenously. he was prepped and ready to go on lying down and the warden was in there and some doctor. said he prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like

an x. ray was totally he didn't like every perhaps they've come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who's there changing his execution both for his guests in the 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 i gotcha he didn't get away with it. now we. had raised the 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. around on the ticket i've ever gone through. it was painless for him he didn't suffer he was a slave like an animal like euthanize a dog or a cat but it was actually probably far more humane.

noel than lower and realized that the execution would also claim other victims sean's family. shuns 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. they're a good look for. a certain nature on this kind of third day of. i just can't get back there. i don't think i could almost have the. honor of. stable enough to do this.

work i am talking to your this this or to communicate with me i care i can't stand the way. i love you i wish things were different. could buy. the execution was a terrible ordeal for shawn's grandfather jim saunders 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 ground some to death. he's still migraines are. they still what grapes are. i would love to say it's not going to affect me one where the other one i put in today. but i know better. this go short term a good sale. good show today if they're not going at my answer i don't regularly back to back. you know what was your reaction when i was really just and. i just really so well. how cruel can you be really. that's so real so to came to my mind.

i hated the gym suffered. because i live champ. and was always gets me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken and a committee hearing i couldn't bear to think and. grandfather died shortly after the execution.

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