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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:22:35:00

Testify against him one last time. hatch pleaded for his life. i m sorry for the pain the children, brooks and leslie douglass, continue to feel. i can say sorry for the rest of time, and that would not be enough. i could die 100 times, and it would never be enough to make up for what had happened. but then testimony that astounded leslie douglass and brought back all the horror. i had found out some things at the clemency hearing that that i was not aware of. and so it kind of shattered my world. it happened at the very beginning when the state brought those murder charges against ake and hatch in the first place. they chose not to put leslie through the additional trauma of testifying about the rapes. after all, they could prove murder easily. and leslie never knew, not in all those years, that the killers denied raping her all ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:21:58:00

But shellshocked by the deaths of their parents the previous october, they struggled. any semblance of teenage normalcy forever lost to them. and they coped separately. leslie had moved to another town. brooks was still in the old neighborhood near his high school. they still had no idea that oklahoma winter that the legal trials of the men who killed their parents which were about to begin could become their own decades s long tribulation. despite their long and detailed confessions, glen ake, the trigger man, and stephen hatch his accomplice, had pleaded not guilty to charges of the murders of reverend douglass and his wife marilyn and shooting the children. stephen hatch was tried first at the canadian county courthouse. hatch was a follower, but he s the one that picked out the house that night. he s the one that wanted to commit another crime. he s the one that created the energy for actually for the second crime. and the state of oklahoma looked to have an ironclad case aga ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:22:21:00

Would be the stereo ttypical person that goes through all this kind of stuff. and i wanted to make something of myself. my mom never went to college so i went to college and got a master s degree. it s one of those things that i don t want people to tell me i can t accomplish things and do things because they think i m going to allow everything that s happened affect my whole life. brooks finally struggled through college, took an army rotc commission, then went to law school and got married. but again and again, both put their lives on hold to unpack their awful memories for trials and appeals and parole and clemency hearings, for glen ake and stephen hatch. how many times did you have to testify? i think it was a total of nine. what did it do to you? as soon as i would hear that i was going to need to go testify again, you know, my mind would go to that place. and it would just it was a month of or however long, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:22:39:00

the family witnessing an execution was so unusual, leslie appeared on the today show. how has this crime haunted you and followed you since it happened? i dealt with it a lot better then. but as i ve become older and have had children, it has become so much harder to try to explain to my children that they re never going to get to know their grandparents, they re never going to see them. so was it what you expected? i now know i m never going to get a call, whether i m in california or whenever it is that i m living, outer mongolia, and be told, guess what i hate to tell you this but you re going to have to testify against stephen hatch again. but was it? he had forgiven ake, felt that he had put that behind him, accepted things as they were. but according to brooks friends, he was troubled after ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:22:38:00

That what we all want to do is is change the thing that we ve done in life that we regret? and go back and amend those things or ask for forgive not? because he took a big, huge part of me. and just after midnight, 17 painful years after their parents were killed, leslie and brooks watched stephen hatch strapped to a gurney die by lethal injection. hatch left behind a written statement. in it he called those who sat in judgment of him evil and barbaric and politicians. an hour after hatch was pronounced dead, brooks spoke to the press. leslie and i have again witnessed the taking of a life. the first time we did so we were young people who were present when our mother and father were viciously killed. today is the end of a very long ordeal that has dominated our lives. ....

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