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November 7, 2025 • 25 mins
🜏 THE DEVIL WITHIN The Sean Sellers Story — Part Two Chapters IV–VI: A Killer Reborn? Or a Script Well-Read? A prison cell can become a tomb—or a pulpit. In Part Two, we return to Sellers not as the eyeliner-clad teen who chanted to shadows, but as the soft-voiced inmate who prayed to Christ and mailed cassette-sermons across America. Sean Sellers reinvented himself. He claimed salvation. And in doing so, forced a country to ask whether redemption has limits—or if we only pretend to believe in change until the incarcerated actually change. Advocates saw a conversion story. Critics saw a performance. Psychologists saw untreated trauma. The state saw only the law. We follow his prison years, his religious awakening, the movement to spare his life, and the midnight hour in February 1999 when Oklahoma drew the curtain and pushed the chemicals. The only juvenile killer executed in modern American history — and the case that helped end juvenile death sentences forever. Did Sean Sellers find grace? Escape responsibility? Fool the world? Or did we witness something even harder to accept: A monster made at sixteen, a man made by solitude, and a soul no court could truly sentence? 📜 Chapters • Chapter IV — The Confession Tapes A demon becomes a preacher; redemption meets skepticism. • Chapter V — The Executioner's Prayer A quiet last meal, a scripture-laden farewell, and a death chamber lit in fluorescent truth. • Chapter VI — A Shadow Over Innocence Legacy, law, and the ghost of a boy standing between morality and policy. 🎧 Follow & ReviewSubscribe and leave a review — your voice brings others into the chapel and the courtroom. 🕯 Evio Creative Network • The Devil’s Ledger • The Ides of April • Criminal Mischief • Taboo Treasures Follow: @thedevilwithinpod • @eviocreative 🛠 Sponsor Shout-Outs • Quince → quince.com/DEVILWITHIN • Mint Mobile → mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN • ExpressVPN → expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN • MOOD → mood.com/DEVILWITHIN • Ollie → ollie.com/IDES • Monarch → monarch.com/IDES Support the storytellers that keep the lights low and the truth sharp. 🔮 Next Week on The Devil Within A new case begins — whispered prayers in a borrowed room, obsession disguised as prophecy, and a community that learns fear can bloom anywhere faith does. If God speaks in silence… what else might? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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