Sean Sellers was a sixteen year old boy who lived in the state of Oklahoma. On September 5, 1985 he went and killed Robert Bower, a store clerk. His reason behind the killing was 'he wanted to know what it was like to kill somebody'. Soon after he had done this crime, he went on and killed his mother and stepfather while they were sound asleep in their Oklahoma City home. There was a testimony that had been given by him and his defense that Sean was addicted to the game Dungeons and Dragons; doing so gave him no control over his actions. This did not help him in the courts and he was sentenced to death on February 4, 1999 at the age of 29.
Sean was the thirteenth person executed who was a juvenile. States have certain age limits to where they trial an underage person as an adult: 3 states for sixteen and above, 9 states for seventeen and above, and the rest for 18 and above. All of the juveniles that have been sentenced to the death penalty have all been male. Race wise, African Americans have been sentenced the most. Also, the most race victimized have been white.
Juvenile offenders who were on death row. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/juvenile-offenders-who-were-death-row
Sean seller. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/sellers512.htm
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