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Helen Prejean CSJ (/ p r eɪ ˈ ʒ ɑː n / pray-ZHAHN; [1] born April 21, 1939) is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. She is known for her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on death row for whom she served as spiritual adviser ...
Prejean, who is now 85, is also the author of The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (2004) and River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey (2019).
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean began to write to Willie, at the request of the prison chaplain. A teacher in New Orleans, she was one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille and had acted as spiritual adviser to another inmate on death row. Willie was held on death row pending his execution, as appeals made their way through the courts.
CNN talked to him about his personal encounters with death row prisoners and the unique community of visitors — in the tradition of “Dead Man Walking”‘s Sister Helen Prejean — who show ...
After witnessing her first execution, Prejean said she threw up, but decided that being with people in their final moments was a privilege. ... DePaul students, and Sister Helen Prejean attend a ...
Sister Helen Prejean published a book, Dead Man Walking (1993), about her relationship with Elmo Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, another inmate on death row whom she counseled. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet, an amalgam ...
Dead Man Walking (1993) is a work of non-fiction by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille based in New Orleans. Arising from her work as a spiritual adviser to two convicted murderers on death row , the book is set largely at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) in West Feliciana ...
A sixth state, Idaho, called off an execution after the execution team could not set an IV line. ... Ivan Cantu spent his last moments with his spiritual advisor Sister Helen Prejean, an anti ...