claims the prosecutors sabotaged the case. more headlines coming up in less than a haul for now and of course an update on the fast moving developments in libya that'll be later for you but first our special report looks at life after the death i should say life after the death penalty in the u.s. that's our special report next here on r.t. . 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 arabs you know we've been right there with bales 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 haven't you care about and you did the same you know for the one they kill. 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 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 had great times for. most of the. it it's done it's. worth years had to worry. it's what it's just his nap and what if he gets the kids out the mayor. did

things i had no worries years. present a child's execution not night there were also those who had tried to save him.

jones' execution left scars on his lawyer steve press and. began to. steam still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. rationalizing in final appeals of the condemned he has lost eleven of them and 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 abuse 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 shawn's 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 nutley 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 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. you know a member shontelle or because he was the first guy that actually he was not an adult. would. know when he first jamie jamie was

a big thing no xan. thought of while i remember that exchange. with twenty flash bangs. was involved in oh and 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 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 that they 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 very 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. says are 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 i'll take the men's ad execution chamber with a payment of six officers restrained all when they first come out of this so 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. not handcuff you not legard he anything goldener like a man they wish he was somebody you know you wish he was somebody who knows and understood 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'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 have come sort of and i'm telling dirk you don't do that. you know and they get up there in the what were 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. you can't 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 i would look at him and i would look at him so

much that i don't want anything so mom cries to mohmed out that point toward and say let the execution began before he says that he waits a little bit and that way is for the governor in case the 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 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'll 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 stripped 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 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. three. 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 with 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 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 present throughout our lives and our usual death penalty i don't. satisfaction or joy. bitterness or low hopefully. model law my fellow law enforcement people move to

agree that it is only turned. good it is and if it is not 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 were who crime is on who was not present and especially directly to young women and children and. i can explain to you why is having. and we're proud of her very horrible crimes i don't know how to explain it. we've seen had several cases filed in this county where a boyfriend or husband smashed a 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 rehabilitate we're. i think if you commit these horrible horrible crimes. host beyond

redemption how he had to teach some money too. until later on. his. if people only each other there would be conclusive.

you can. eat. the. meat. fish eat eat eat eat it 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 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. 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 a laugh 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 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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