Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate

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.*She also*came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute-men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doin...