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Dead Man Walking

by Helen Prejean

ISBN13: 9780307787699
ISBN10: 0307787699
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the monthsbefore Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. At the same time, she came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to executehim--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.

Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment.Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, Dead Man Walking is an unprecedented look at the humanconsequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.

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A Catholic nun shares her unique perspective of the death penalty gained through her counseling of death-row inmates

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ISBN:: 9780307787699
Subtitle:: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Publisher:: Vintage Books
Author:: Prejean, Helen
Subject:: Law : Criminal Law - General
Subject:: Social Science : Criminology
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 19940531
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 276

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