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Dead Man Walkingby Helen PrejeanISBN 000628003X (0-00-628003-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man Walking'Book summary: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 capital 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 unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating [via]
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United Statesby Helen PrejeanISBN 0006278140 (0-00-627814-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States'Book summary: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 capital 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 unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.
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- Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States: ISBN 0679403582 (0-679-40358-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States: ISBN 0006278140 (0-00-627814-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States: ISBN 0679403582 (0-679-40358-2)
Dead Man Walking: The Shooting Scriptby Helen Prejean , Tim RobbinsISBN 1557043000 (1-55704-300-0)
Softcover, Newmarket Pr
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executionsby Helen PrejeanISBN 1853116823 (1-85311-682-3)
Softcover, Canterbury Press Norwich
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Innocents : An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions'Book summary:Since the 1993 publication of her memoir Dead Man Walking and the 1995 film it inspired, Sister Helen Prejean has become a powerful and articulate presence in the fight against the death penalty in America. In The Death of Innocents, Prejean focuses her argument on the ways in which an unjust system may be killing innocent people. She tells the story of two inmates she came to know as a spiritual adviser. Dobie Williams, a poor black man with an IQ of 65 from rural Louisiana, was executed after being represented by incompetent counsel and found guilty by an all-white jury based mostly on conjecture and speculation. Joseph O'Dell was convicted of murder after the court heard from an inmate who later admitted to giving false testimony for his own benefit. O'Dell received neither an evidentiary hearing nor potentially exculpatory DNA testing and was executed, insisting on his innocence the whole while. Besides exploring the shaky cases against them, Prejean describes in vivid detail the thoughts and feelings of Williams and O'Dell as their bids for clemency fail and they are put to death. The second part of the book details "the machinery of death," the legal process that Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, dismayed at the inequities of the death penalty, cited as his reason for resigning and that current justice Antonin Scalia has boasted of being a part of. Prejean is impassioned as she describes what she sees as an arrogant attitude by both Scalia and the contemporary judicial system. Her chance confrontation with Scalia at an airport is a gripping collision of disparate worlds. In recent years, DNA testing has overturned the convictions of scores of prisoners, including many on death row. As the death penalty is increasingly called into question, Sister Helen Prejean will surely be a force in that debate. --John Moe [via]
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- The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions: ISBN 0679759484 (0-679-75948-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books - The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions: ISBN 0679440569 (0-679-44056-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Death of Innocents : An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions: ISBN 1853116823 (1-85311-682-3)
Softcover, Canterbury Press Norwich
- The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions: ISBN 0679759484 (0-679-75948-4)
Doing Timeby Helen PrejeanISBN 1559705140 (1-55970-514-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing from the Pen Programby Bell Gale Chevigny, Helen PrejeanISBN 1559704780 (1-55970-478-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths: The Politics of Crime Controlby John M. Johnson, Rudolph J. Gerber, Helen PrejeanISBN 0275997804 (0-275-99780-4)
Hardcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Rowby John M. Johnson, Rudolph J. Gerber, Helen PrejeanISBN 155553290X (1-55553-290-X)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row'Book summary:This deeply moving book vividly conveys life in the hidden world of death row by giving condemned men and women in the United States the rare opportunity to speak for themselves. Ranging from descriptions of cockroach races to eloquent statements about facing execution, this collection of letters from inmates to members of the pen friend group, Lifelines, unmasks the human face of the death penalty. As Sister Helen Prejean writes in her foreword, "Take this guided tour round Hell--guided by those who should know: the prisoners themselves." [via]
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- Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row: ISBN 1555536360 (1-55553-636-0)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr - Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row: ISBN 1555532896 (1-55553-289-6)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England - Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row: ISBN 155553290X (1-55553-290-X)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr
- Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row: ISBN 1555536360 (1-55553-636-0)
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Non Uccidere: Perche e Necessario Abolire La Pena Di Morteby Helen Prejean , Mario MarazzitiISBN 8878028649 (88-7802-864-9)
Hardcover, Guerini
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