actually assaulting a hotel maid. more news coming in less than half an hour but first our special report looks at life after the death penalty in the u.s. . the 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 participate in it now my aim is to meet the people of born volved in the execution of sean sellers.

this is where sean sellers spent the last thirteen years of his life. ever cameras and three. thousand three. hundred dollars or a little we. took a. shine was to. and the nine when this interview took place. most people around here are you know all this season to throw in all the seed chains and wars and crime. so.

you know if all you can see is a summer's herzog. did someone is killed somebody. that someone is dangerous did you with the person who did the person deserves to die. and. i don't blame the. exhibit this is why. the only people who really really. have. to want to see me did and people i've heard believe her story she knows what i did and i was sixteen years old those people have a right to hate me those legal have a right to be angry with me those people have a right to what we did if i ever hurt you why do you want me to dad.

when he was sixteen shawn murdered his mother vonda and his step father leave. their birds here in eastern oklahoma. i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while voluntarily were sleeping in their home shown shot them with his stepfather scum. he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force.

and. 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. his 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 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. sean's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. i think it's right tragedy that in the united states a sixteen yo when he commits a crime can be put to.

in one thousand nine hundred 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 shaun'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 an adult writes books attacking the cultures of. 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. for we go wherever it is here it. gave. us the district to believe. that they could.

three days after meeting sean i sit in on the clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as of last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. steve presson shown a new lawyer is working day and night to prevent the execution. of . the five members of the jury selected by the state governor are to offer recommendations as to whether or not sean sellers should be pardoned.

in the end the governor makes the decision on his own. activists against the death penalty and friends of shown our president to ask but his life be spared. to me this day. signifies whether me and i. will grant mercy or deny mercy and then after that knowing sean. the first one as i have for ten years. and in all of my being he is one should be granted mercy and if he is denied marci i feel it is justice or am i fear for our state yes decide that it's ok to murder a sixteen year old boy killed a person. or something for a crime they've committed. if i i fear or fear for a walk in scope we are not the wild wild west it's time to realize. better ways to

handle this. experience. knowing the rest the world based. on sound sellers of turning aside very apart and no man should ever have to shoulder that it. is early in life . as you know sean was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say the chancellor should not be punished for his crimes sean is being punished no rational person can deny that each day for the last thirteen years john a slope on a concrete slab just inches from a metal toilet in a windowless room smaller than most of our own closets there he spends twenty three hours a day often twenty four and if he's not executed held will spend the rest of his life in just such an existence is it better than what he gave his victims many say not but no one can credibly argue that imprisonment is not punishment sean has been

punished is being punished and will be punished. and i ask you about clemency if not now we're. not showing sellers who on sellers was on a dark. desolate death row very dark on that row dining and. please don't extinguish on. you. during the hearings the families of the victims get to say their pace. the parents and children of lee belafonte shawn stepfather are here to demand that

the execution be carried out. among them on lorna know well at least son and daughter. i'm here to guy. just become my father for almost thirteen years my family has remained silent allowing me just phones and courts. and now after all this time we are shocked to find ourselves here in your presence claiming do you know why the deaths. of song sellers to go forward and executed. the execution of sellers will not bring my father bad or my stepmother.

and can never fill the void in my life. those sellers must be executed for the brutal crime who committed this is a punishment this is not nothing. the content is allowed fifteen minutes to played his case. they are to grow bored and how we can behave. that way and i.

know something of what you heard today because you. have heard. another. imagine. what i say today. because you didn't have been immersed know me whatsoever. and i didn't come here to ask for justice. came here to bid for mercy and.

i don't think you will live with it if. i'm not. so allusion to that i think that i've made no equals not. have to try in trying not to keep on from. in this type of hearing the jury does not retards deliberate the verdict is announced directly. this time. i will call on each member of the board alphabetically. brackenridge now. i'll sketch. at this time ruby

smith. ronald worth. and my that does now. the charm. this time the clemency hearing for sean sellers. or. whether. it's. sean is dead. for the state of oklahoma the case is being 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 with one of the witnesses of the execution in this nature reserve in the eastern part of the state.

at the clemency hearing. son of lee bell a photo 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 a fitting punishment for the crime he committed because i happen to agree with it. is this is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me.

hope well bellefonte lawrence sister lives in the town of lawton in the center of oklahoma. she also waited thirty nine years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma 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 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 and it was lethal injection that was all done through. it was altered intravenously he was prepped and ready to go when lange down and the warden was in there and some doctor and. so a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happy because it seemed like and that to me it was totally conceivable he didn't like afraid perhaps he'd come to terms with his fate he gets a list of everyone who. has an execution.

both. his guests in the prison the guests and his family members and the victims' family members. it's the only opportunity you're going to have to go see i got you he didn't get away with it now worry that i've raised a point where i guess the humanized him. and i had to for my own peace of mind i had to look at him for what it was a killer. i don't think i could have ever gone through. it was painless for him. for he was

like an animal like euthanize a dog or cat but it was actually probably far more humane. realize that the execution would also claim other victims family. 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. there think good look for sure for. certain make sure this is kind of certain if they have. i just can't get back there to feel perfectly. i don't think i could almost have the. stable enough to do this. lucky i'm talking to you or this this or to communicate with you i can't i can't stand. a love you i wish things were different. good bye.

the execution was a terrible ordeal for sean's grandfather jim vande his 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 vonda and now the state was about to put his only grandson to death. he's still migraines are. they still great so. i would

love to say it's not going to affect me one where the other one may put him to do. but i know better. it's going to go to good. put a show there they're not going to bring that my answer back i will bring. back. you know what was your reaction when i was just. i just really so we'll. how cruel can you be really. has children so to came to women. i hated that janet's effort. because i lived chan. and was i was good to me. as a child i really liked him. and i hated that he i mean he was so. broken

at the committee hearing i couldn't bear to look at. sean's grandfather died shortly after the execution.

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