Sister Helen Prejean Signed 1993 Paperback book "Dead Man Walking" in very good condition
Signed on 3rd page *****Helen Prejean*****"
A Catholic nun's impassioned memoir of her friendship with two death-row
inmates, coupled with a plea for the abolition of capital punishment. In
1982, Prejean, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille,
agrees to correspond with convicted rapist and murderer Patrick Sonnier,
awaiting execution in Louisiana's electric chair. Letters lead to
visits, and Prejean becomes spiritual advisor to the condemned man. Her
counsel takes hold, and Sonnier dies repentant—far more so than
Prejean's second death-row friend, the arrogant Robert Lee Wilson, also a
rapist and murderer. Both killers come off as repellently fascinating,
but the real interest here is in Prejean, who begins as a frail but
courageous soul, utterly out of place inside a prison, and winds up as a
fierce spokeswoman for the right to life—even of those who have taken
the lives of others. Her arguments against capital punishment are well
known but preached with passion: The death penalty is racist, barbaric,
and doesn't deter crime; innocent people get killed, etc. But her real
brief lies in the grim details of execution, both in the degradation of
the long weeks of waiting and in the torture of the execution
itself—which involves, says Prejean, extreme physical and mental pain.
The details will turn heads and stomachs: last-minute meetings with the
governor, who always has his own agenda; last meals with the prisoner
(Sonnier feasts on steak and apple pie, and thanks the cook); the last
seconds of life, as the condemned man's face is covered by a veil
(Wilson winks at Prejean as the cloth descends). To Prejean, the whole
story is a web of crimes—the original murder; the execution; the moral
hypocrisy of the judicial system; the suffering inflicted upon the
families of both killer and victim—to which the only moral response is
love inspired by Christ, who ``refused to meet hate with hate and
violence with violence.'' Touching and compelling.
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