01842cam a2200289 i 4500 508495819 TxAuBib 20210921120000.0 931103s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93043877 9780679751311 PAP 16.00 0679751319 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib rda Prejean, Helen. Dead man walking [BOOK] : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean. First Vintage books edition. New York : Vintage Books, 1994. xi, 276 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index. 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. 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. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. 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. Provided by publisher. 20210921. Capital punishment United States. Capital punishment Religious aspects.