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A conversation with Sister Helen Prejean
with Helen Prejean on Mar 8, 1996
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with Helen Prejean on Mar 8, 1996
Sister Helen Prejean CSJ is a Roman Catholic nun, one of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Her crusade began in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1981, through a correspondence she maintained with a convicted murderer, Elmo Patrick Sonnier, who was sentenced to death by electrocution. At the same time, she also founded Survive, an organization devoted to providing counseling to the families of victims of violence. She served as National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1993 to 1995. An autobiographical account of her relationship with Sonnier and other inmates on death row served as the basis for the feature film and opera “Dead Man Walking”.
Sister Prejean’s is the author of “The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions” published in 2004. She now bases her work at the Death Penalty Discourse Center in New Orleans and spends her time giving talks across the United States and around the world.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Prejean
