Signed!, Dead Man Walking / Helen Prejean / outlets 1993 True Crime Book / Memoir, Biography, Politics, Social Justice, Religion

Account of a nun's experience with death row inmates, basis for the Tim Robbins film featuring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.

"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." From Goodreads

Title: Dead Man Walking, An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States

Author: Helen Prejean, C.S.J.

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Black Hardcover with Gilt Lettering on Spine

Book Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: By Author

Pages: 278

Other Items: Dust Jacket has some creases, spots and old pricing. Cover is shelf worn and a few spots. Book corner is bent and pages have a minor crease - see picture. Approximate measurements: 9 1/2 x 6 1/2". See Pictures.

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