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22 Aug 2009, 12:36 am
We're all better, as Sister Helen Prejean routinely reminds us, than the worst thing we've ever done.It's 8 a.m. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 7:24 am by Steve Hall
Bessler suggests that public executions might have the same effect on the public today; Sister Helen Prejean, the death penalty abolitionist, has urged just such a strategy. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
Intrigued, Cumming and the rest of Henderson's legal team — assembled by Sister Helen Prejean of "Dead Man Walking" fame and working without charge — found a leading expert in biomechanics and secured a hastily prepared affidavit asserting that even short falls can be fatal to infants. [read post]
16 May 2015, 6:03 am by SHG
Tsarnaev had expressed sorrow and remorse for his actions, a stinging rebuke to the assertion by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and renowned death penalty opponent, that he was “genuinely sorry” for what he had done. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 9:09 am
I'm not as enlightened as Sister Helen Prejean. [read post]
” Sister Helen Prejean, a death row spiritual advisor, said she believes Texas’ current execution protocol “violates basic principles of human dignity and religious liberty. [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 12:36 am
We're all better, as Sister Helen Prejean routinely reminds us, than the worst thing we've ever done.It's 8 a.m. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 12:23 pm by Tanya Greene, ACLU
Many thoughtful criminal justice advocates, like Sister Helen Prejean, affirm that it is a more lasting and complete healing. [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]
4 Nov 2009, 8:08 pm
Here, then, are highlights of our recently tweeted legal headlines: Tribunal awards $35000 to fired pregnant woman - Canada NewsWire http://bit.ly/1dBp3O Canada to extend Employment Insurance benefits to self-employed - http://tiny.cc/WiseLaw827 Ontario court denies insurer's bid to see claimant's Facebook account - Investment Executive http://bit.ly/2l01Cx Lawyers Warn: Bosses Who 'Friend' Are Begging to Be Sued http://bit.ly/ui4wi Abella's message: Stand up for justice -… [read post]
1 May 2009, 8:22 am
He has filed a takedown of anti-gay marriage a video featuring him and Carrie Prejean. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 7:32 pm
Also leading the delegation was Sister Helen Prejean, the author of "Dead Man Walking," which was the basis for the 1995 film of the same name.On Thursday the human rights committee of the General Assembly was presented with a draft resolution on the issue by the countries of Angola, Albania, Brazil, Croatia, Gabon, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal (representing the European Union), and New Zealand. [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]
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]
27 Feb 2020, 7:45 am by Denise Maes
Leading death penalty repeal activist Sister Helen Prejean joined our podcast to share her inspiring solidarity with death row inmates. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 3:26 am
(You can send email to sheffer@aceweb.com)In celebration of Human Rights Day, here is an excerpt from Sister Helen Prejean's book The Death of Innocents:It was to be expected when Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was debated back in the 1940s that such a declaration, which granted everyone the right to life without qualification, would provoke debate, and one of the first proposed amendments was that an exception ought to be made in the case of criminals lawfully… [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 9:08 am
He appears briefly in the film Dead Man Walking and has worked closely on several projects with author and spiritual advisor Helen Prejean, CSJ.Abe is a long-time activist with Amnesty International (AIUSA), including four years as a member of the Board of Directors of AIUSA, and he currently serves on the board of directors of Journey of Hope ...From Violence to Healing, Inc. as well as the board of directors of NCADP. [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]