Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty In The United States
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0679751319
ISBN 13
9780679751311
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
304
Description
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.
Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capitol punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, "Dead Man Walking" is an un precedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.
Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capitol punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, "Dead Man Walking" is an un precedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.
Number of Copies
1
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