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30 Jun 2011, 12:12 pm by admin
Prejean obliges the request, but quickly questions why. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 8:26 am by Steve Hall
As Prejean put it to Cardinal Chairman and CEO George Barrett, this use of the drug is ” not for the purpose of ‘improving people’s lives,’ as you say on your website, but to kill people, i.e. [read post]
8 May 2011, 11:06 pm by Jeff Gamso
  His execution was the second that Sister Helen Prejean recounts in Dead Man Walking.Debbie Cuevas is now Debbie Morris, and she tells that story in painstaking detail in Forgiving the Dead Man Walking. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 7:01 am by zshapiro
Among those who have had books banned in Texas prisons are Jon Stewart, William Shakespeare, Sojouner Truth, Juan Williams, Jenna Bush, 50 Cent, John Grisham, Noam Chomsky, Stephen King, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, George Orwell, Gustave Flaubert, George Carlin, and Sister Helen Prejean. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 9:49 am by brian
" --Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking"It's common to say that DNA exonerations of innocent defendants provide a unique window on the weaknesses in our system of criminal investigation and trial. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 12:22 pm by Steve Hall
Quinn approached his announcement, he was lobbied by death penalty supporters, including family members of some victims, and by opponents, including the South African anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu, the death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean and the actor Martin Sheen. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 1:48 pm by Jeff Gamso
  He knows it.I pant for life: some good I mean to do,Despite of mine own nature.Sister Helen Prejean says that none of us is as bad as the worst thing we've done. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 9:00 am by Steve Hall
Weeks earlier, the governor followed much the same routine as he was told the capital punishment system is too broken to keep in place by Sister Helen Prejean, a New Orleans nun whose experiences with a Death Row inmate became the basis for the film "Dead Man Walking. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 9:18 am by Steve Hall
  But as Sister Helen Prejean teaches us, the real question is not whether they deserve to die, but whether we deserve to kill them. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"What do Jon Stewart, William Shakespeare, Sojouner Truth, Juan Williams, Jenna Bush, 50 Cent, John Grisham, Noam Chomsky, Stephen King, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, George Orwell, Gustave Flaubert, George Carlin, and Sister Helen Prejean have in common? [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 2:38 pm by Jeff Gamso
Here's the first paragraph of an essay by Sister Helen Prejean from 2005. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 2:14 pm by waltguy
Sister Helen Prejean, social activist and anti-death penalty crusader has donated 30 years worth of her personal papers and artifacts to DePaul University. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 7:52 am by Steve Hall
The Houston Press reports, "Joyce DiDonato Plays Sister Helen Prejean in HGO's Dead Man Walking. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 11:24 am by Steve Hall
Prejean, a former teacher, joined the Sisters of St. [read post]
As usual, the words of Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking fame, were inspirational — as were those of her copresenters during the first plenary entitled, "The Kairos Moment: Unleashing the Spiritual Power of Faith-based Communities to Transform the Death Penalty in the Next Decade. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 11:25 pm by Jeff Gamso
  The result:  Virtually the entire cast of the play is dead.Sister Helen Prejean says that we are all better than the worst thing we've ever done. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 9:00 pm
 I met Sister Prejean at an NACDL-sponsored gathering at the Capitol around 1994. [read post]
12 Jun 2010, 10:40 am by Steve Hall
And he is especially disdainful of “outside” prison activists like Sister Helen Prejean of “Dead Man Walking” fame for meddling in a world he claims they can’t possibly understand.In 2005, the man Life magazine had featured as “The Most Rehabilitated Prisoner in America” was granted yet another trial. [read post]
19 May 2010, 8:45 am by Transplanted Lawyer
  Now, I have a hard time figuring out just why it is that two years in a row we've been paying attention to the Miss USA pageant (last year we found ourselves following the tawdry story of Miss California Carrie Prejean, whose brief career as a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage was aborted by the revelation of a solo sex video). [read post]