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Dead
man walking
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Movie
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Movie: Dead man walking
(1995)
Book: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in
the United States (1993)
Premise
book & movie:
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 months before 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 execute him--men who often
harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.
from:
Amazon
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Author:
Sister Helen Prejean was born on April 21, 1939, in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in
1957 and received a B.A. in English and Education from St. Mary's
Dominican College, New Orleans in 1962. In 1973, she earned an M.A.
in Religious Education from St. Paul's University in Ottawa, Canada.
She has been the Religious Education Director at St. Frances Cabrini
Parish in New Orleans, the Formation Director for her religious
community, and has taught junior and senior high school students.
Sister Helen began her prison ministry in 1981 when she dedicated her
life to the poor of New Orleans. While living in the St. Thomas
housing project, she became pen pals with Patrick
Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers, sentenced to die in the electric
chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Upon Sonnier's request,
Sister Helen repeatedly visited him as his spiritual advisor. In
doing so, her eyes were opened to the Louisiana execution process.
from:
http://www.prejean.org/
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Director:
Tim Robbins
Cast:
Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Celia Weston, Raymond
J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey, Roberta Maxwell, Lois Smith.
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