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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]
20 Mar 2020, 7:58 am by Dani Selby
— Sister Helen Prejean (@helenprejean) March 20, 2020 Follow these champions of change on Twitter for more updates: @injusticewatch, @southerncenter, @helenprejean, @colorofchange, @scotthech, @BrooklynDefenders, @RDunhamDPIC The post The Coronavirus Has Reached Jails and Prisons — But You Can Still Help appeared first on Innocence Project. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 1:37 pm by Dani Selby
— Sister Helen Prejean (@helenprejean) July 27, 2021 Yesterday was day 7 and today is day 8 of the hearing in #Bastrop #Texas. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:17 am
"I'd have killed him myself if I'd had the chance," he writes.Now in his 80s, Welch has become one of the most persuasive campaigners against the death penalty in the US, travelling with the famous abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, whose life story is told in Dead Man Walking. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 4:36 pm
"-Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking"Dominique Green was a wonderful man whose life demonstrated the power of God to heal and transfigure even the most unlikely people and places. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 9:39 am by John Floyd
Longtime death penalty opponent and social justice activist Sister Helen Prejean lent a voice of outrage for these people with the following post on her Facebook and Twitter pages:   “I raise my voice in fervent opposition to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast’s scandalous offer of an award to Attorney General Barr for his ‘exemplary Christlike’ behavior. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 6:42 am
Joseph Helen Prejean, a well-known advocate against thedeath penalty, have also written on behalf of Davis. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 4:00 am by SHG
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]
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]
8 Dec 2013, 11:14 am by Jeff Gamso
  But for all you'll hear about reconciliation and forgiveness, and for all I imagine he'd deny it, in practice our system reflects the attitudes of Bill (hang-'em-high) Otis a whole lot more than it does the attitudes of Helen Prejean. [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]
17 Sep 2019, 7:56 am by Alicia Maule
  River of Fire by Sister Helen Prejean  The nation’s foremost advocate for the abolishment of the death penalty shares her journey as a spiritual leader who became a powerful advocate for criminal justice reform. [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]
18 Mar 2008, 2:47 am
Helen Prejean when she told the university community how forgiveness shows great strength and that the administration of the death penalty reflects whose lives we value more in this society. [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 2:23 am
Meanwhile Davis' sister, Martina Correia, hashelped assemble an diverse group of advocates - from Dead Man Walking authorSister Helen Prejean to South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to former FBIdirector William S. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 5:27 am
.'s execution date draws near, I am reminded of the title of Sister Helen Prejean's book Dead Man Walking -- the term that describes a condemned man on his way to the death chamber. [read post]