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>> i contacted brooks and leslie and indicated that we would have to retrial ake. i'm sure they just thought, will this ever end? >> that was exactly the stunned siblings' reaction. once again they opened their psychic and emotional wounds for inspection by the court. and this is the thing that is so remarkable is that you're able to go there again and again -- >> right. >> in places that are daunting and difficult, and yet you clearly feel that same emotional turmoil every time it comes up. >> i do. >> there you are sitting with us, and you're feeling it all again. >> you'd think 31 years lat...

Atrocious, or cruel, i can't imagine a case that would. >> his sentence reinstated, stephen hatch went back to death row. and meanwhile, glen ake, the triggerman, had been filing appeals from a nearby cell. in february of 1985, six years after the douglassses were murdered, the united states supreme court ruled in ake vs. oklahoma that he deserved a new trial. prosecutors had failed to provide a psychiatrist at state expense. kathy stoker was the d.a. >> i contacted brooks and leslie and indicated that we would have to retrial ake. i'm sure they just thought, will this ever end? >> that was ex...