In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed.
Now, some two decades later, this story--which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album--is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it..
On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the Death penalty.
Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love.
Out of That dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment.
She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.
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.
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.
Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion That embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier\'s walk to the electric chair.
In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed
