Dead Man Walking - The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1994
First published:	May 1994
Authors:	Helen Prejean
Preface by:	Desmond Tutu
Afterword by:	Susan Sarandon • Tim Robbins
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-75131-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-679-75131-9
Barcode:	9780679751311

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