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2. Helen Prejean - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Dead Man Walking (book) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Sister Helen Prejean on Capital Punishment, Justice, and ...

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   Photo: Sister Helen Prejean on June 6, 2024, in New York City; Justin Bettman/Contour by Getty Images. ... This story was immortalized in her 1993 book, Dead Man Walking, which in turn inspired a ...

5. Dead Man Walking - Wikipedia

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   Dead Man Walking, a 1993 non-fiction book by Sister Helen Prejean . Dead Man Walking, a 1995 film based on the book . Dead Man Walking, 1996, and the title song "Dead Man Walkin '" by Bruce Springsteen

6. College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets ...

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   Sister Helen Prejean, right, talks as Richard Obot, left, detainee in Division Of Correction 11, listens to her during a book club at Department Of Corrections Division 11 in Chicago, Monday ...

7. Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in ...

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   Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.” “I don’t know boo-scat about opera,” she told him. The most-performed ...

8. Robert Lee Willie - Wikipedia

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   Sister Helen Prejean, a teacher and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille from New Orleans, began to write to him and later served as his spiritual adviser. In her book Dead Man Walking (1993), she explored her experiences with men on death row and the basis for her growing opposition to the death penalty.

9. College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets ...

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   Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her DePaul University peers to Cook County Jail to discuss books with inmates and recently, the well-known activist Sister Helen Prejean. Ampofo comes ...