No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the Death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ.
She has confronted lawyers and j.
In the years since then, her continuing and often controversial work with death-row inmates has kept the issue near the forefront of national debate.
Her best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and the hit Hollywood film adaptation in which she was played by Susan Sarandon, was a catalyst for drawing national attention to the issue.
No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the Death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ