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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking,challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now in The Death of Innocents, she takes us to the new moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re killing the wrong man? [Read More...]
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty In The United States by Sister Helen Prejean
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. [Read More...}
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- Welcome To Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row (Paperback) by Helen Prejean (Contributor), Clive Stafford Smith (Contributor), Jan Arriens (Editor) This book on the death penalty in America has two parts: a case history and a collection of letters written by men and women on death row. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Don't Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty (Hardcover) byRachel King King, a lawyer with the ACLU and an anti-death-penalty activist, tells the haunting stories of families touched by murder. Instead of seeking the death penalty for the convicts, these family members forcefully and poignantly oppose it: they "reject the concept of retribution and believe that no one is beyond redemption," says King. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Living next to the Death House Authors Virginia Stem Owens and David Clinton Owens live in Huntsville, Texas, which has earned a reputation as the death penalty capital of the United States. The authors explore how the steady stream of executions in the town has affected these people and the community at large. As the Owenses show, the ever-present death chamber "reaches out like tentacles to touch the lives of everyone who lives here."
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- Within these Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain By: Reverend Carroll Pickett In 15 years, Pickett ministered to almost 100 condemned men in Texas. This is a story of an extraordinary vocation, one for which being the chaplain sometimes meant sitting with a man, raped and bleeding, too terrified for his life to go to the hospital. A gripping look at America's prisons from a unique, and much needed, perspective. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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- Death At Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner (Paperback) by Donald A. Cabana In this folksy narrative, Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty. Of all the inmates he encounters he is closest to Connie Ray Evans, a relatively mild soul who had killed a convenience-store clerk. In 1987, faced with a rising tide of anti-crime fervor, the state of Mississippi randomly chose inmates to execute, and Evans was the second. Cabana oversaw Evans's execution, and within the year he left prison corrections forever. (Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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