SEAN SELLERS

Sean Richard Sellers (May 18, 1969 – February 5, 1999) was an American murderer, one of 22 persons in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 to be executed for a crime committed while under the age of 18. He was also the only person during this period to be executed for a crime committed under the age of 17. His case drew worldwide attention due to his age as well as his jailhouse conversion to Christianity and his claim that demonic possession made him innocent of his crimes.
Crimes
On March 5, 1986, Sellers killed his mother, Vonda Bellofatto, and his stepfather, Lee Bellofatto, while they were asleep in the bedroom of their Oklahoma City home. Sellers tried to disguise his guilt by arranging the crime scene to look as if an intruder had committed the killings.
Sellers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court declined his appeal.
Sellers' imminent execution brought condemnation from a wide variety of sources, including the European Union, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the American Bar Association and Bianca Jagger. Nearly all raised issues about his age at the time of the crimes, and many argued that his religious work from prison outweighed the state's need to execute him.
Sellers was executed by lethal injection at 12:17 a.m. on February 4, 1999.
Aftermath
. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roper v. Simmons, 542 U.S. 551 (2005) later decided it was unconstitutional to execute an individual for a crime committed under the age of 18.
                        T E X T     C O M P R E H E N S I O N
01-Choose the correct sentence according to the text:
a)When Sean Sellers was executed he was eighteen years old
b)Desmond  Tutu was for Sean Sellers’ execution
c)When Sean Sellers committed the crime he was seventeen
d)Lee Bellofatto was Sean Sellers’ dad
e)Nowadays the US doesn’t execute any individual for a crime committed under the age of 18

02-When Sean Sellers passed away, he was ______________________years old.
a)sixteen     b)seventeen      c)eighteen       d)twenty        e)twenty seven

03-The crime took place in ___________________.
a)New York      b)Los Angeles      c)Chicago       d)Oklahoma City      e)Dallas

04-When Sean Sellers committed the crime he was _____________________years old.
a)fifteen      b)sixteen       c)seventeen      d)eighteen      e)nineteen

05-________________________was for Sean Sellers’ execution.
a)Bianca Jagger            b)The European Union          c)the US Supreme Court
d)the American Bar Association     e)Desmond Tutu