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	Sister Helen Prejean Interview
		Prejean: One tremendous difference that the film is having is the way people are approaching it and the new possibilities we have now for debate and discussion on the death penalty that we've never had before.
		Prejean: Yeah, well he was the leader in the sense of through the whole thing and that she experienced-- that Joe Vaccaro did what he said.
		Prejean: Yeah well you know with the film coming out I mean the number of people were like emerging from different corners and so here she's calling me and then she just says I've heard about the film and I knew about your book and then she said something very interesting.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/interviews/hprejean.html (7161 words)

	Helen Prejean
		The experience gave Prejean greater insight into the process involved in executions and she began speaking out against capital punishment.
		Prejean has since ministered to many other inmates on death row and witnessed several more executions.
		She served as National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty[?] from 1993 to 1995.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Helen_Prejean.html (162 words)

	Transformation Spirituality Center - Helen Prejean, CSJ
		Helen Prejean, CSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, began her prison ministry in 1981 in New Orleans.
		Helen's eyes were opened to the Louisiana execution system through acting as a spiritual advisor to a man on death row.
		Helen Prejean will talk about her latest book which is expected to be released in December 2004.
	transformationscenter.org /upcoming/4-05Prejean.htm (212 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| DEAD MAN WALKING by Sister Helen Prejean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sister Helen Prejean looks back on the life and career of her father-- a good man who helped the fl people in his segregated community-- and reflects that "systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and...being kind in an unjust system is not enough" [p.
		Sister Helen believes that a nun, as a servant of God, should serve the poor, and she sees her political activism as a way of serving the poor.
		Sister Helen believes that "to claim to be apolitical or neutral in the face of...injustices would be, in actuality, to uphold the status quo-- a very political position to take, and on the side of the oppressors" [p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/dead_man_walking.asp (1212 words)

	MetroActive News & Issues \| Sister Helen Prejean
		Soul sister: Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun, first confronted her feelings about the death penalty in 1982 after becoming spiritual adviser to a condemned killer at Louisiana's Angola State Prison.
		Prejean was also writing, and it's her writing that's had a major impact on the death penalty debate.
		Prejean served as a consultant for both the movie and the opera--a job that took her into far different circles than her work in a housing project in New Orleans or her mission on death row.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.28.00/prejean-0039.html (1055 words)

	SALON Reviews: Sister Helen Prejean
		Prejean contends that the effect of capital punishment on the men who administer it is as destructive as it is on the sentenced criminal.
		Prejean attended many death row executions, "to pray for the man who would be killed, as well as for the victims and the executioner." Her presence made her a target of verbal abuse by capital punishment advocates protesting outside the prison gates.
		"Helen is someone whom I respect for what she has chosen to do, as well as her opinions," he says.
	www.salon.com /06/reviews/dead3.html (806 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sister Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 21, 1939.
		It was through her involvement with inner city residents in the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans in 1981 that led Sister Helen Prejean to her ministry of counseling death row inmates in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
		Prejean also comforted and counseled families of murder victims, and she participated in founding Survive, which is a victims’ advocacy group in New Orleans.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/aaa38/sisterhelenprejean.htm (333 words)

	Helen Prejean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prejean's second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions was published in December 2004.
		The book also examines the recent history of death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States and looks at the track record of George W. Bush as Governor of Texas.
		Prejean now bases her work at the Death Penalty Discourse Center in New Orleans and spends her time giving talks across the United States and around the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Prejean (540 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean
		Sister Helen's opposition to the death penalty and her advocacy on behalf of the condemned grew out of her encounters with Louisiana death row inmate Pat Sonnier, and her role as his spiritual advisor.
		Sister Helen is the honorary chairperson of The Moratorium Campaign, a group gathering signatures for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, and of Hands Off Cain, an international group based in Rome working for abolition of the death penalty.
		Sister Helen joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957, and received her B.A. in English from St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans in 1962 and her M.A. in Religious Education from St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada in 1973.
	www.ihc.ucsb.edu /events/event_files/past/_spring03/prejean/index.html (672 words)

	The Maneater - Helen Prejean speaks at MU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Helen Prejean speaks at MU By Bill Schubert, Staff Writer.
		Prejean, whose speech was sponsored by the MU chapter of Amnesty International, said there are no winners in capital punishment and more people need to get involved in the effort to stop it.
		Prejean has been touring the country with the "Journey of Hope," a group of murder victims' family members who share her beliefs and goals.
	www.themaneater.com /article.php?id=10388 (623 words)

	Amazon.com: Dead Man Walking: Books: Helen Prejean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prejean confronted the issue of capital punishment by embracing the situations of two of the least sympathetic situations perhaps possible: the men executed had committed heinous, unforgiveable crimes, ones that are alone horrifying to read about.
		In 1982 sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor of Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola state prison.
		Sister Helen's case is a highly serious and convincing one, and she has bolstered it by the results of detailed and careful investigations which she has incorporated on top of her experience as a spiritual adviser to delinquents, whose executions she watched in person.
	www.amazon.com /Dead-Man-Walking-Helen-Prejean/dp/0679751319 (2370 words)

	Helen Prejean, CSJ
		Helen Prejean joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957.
		Sister Helen is the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U., which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
		She is honorary chairperson of Hands Off Cain, an international group based in Rome working for the abolition of the death penalty, a member of Amnesty International and the U.S. National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, where she served as a board member for ten years.
	www.nd.edu /~ndethics/about/prejean.shtml (215 words)

	The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions ... Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
		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.
		Sister Helen traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states.
		Sister Helen Prejean takes us with her on her spiritual journey as she accompanies two possibly innocent human beings to their deaths at the hands of the state.
	www.sisterhelen.org /AboutHelen.html (640 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean, activist for social justice - reporting by Ben Melançon @ BMM Publishing \| Melançon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She agreed to write letters to a prisoner on death row, Sister Prejean said, because she was working with the poor and she knew that people on death row were poor.
		In closing, Sister Prejean said she hoped the Center would be about more than just asking “‘so how do you pray?’” and become a source of raised awareness about, and involvement in, social problems.
		Sister Prejean said that there are questions about Abu-Jamal’s guilt, that he has been a strong voice for African-American people, and that the prison has kept the media away from him.
	www.melanconent.com /pub/report/1999/helenprejean.html (1268 words)

	Busted: Sr. Helen Prejean Part 1 \| BustedHalo.com
		Sister Helen Prejean and members of her religious community got out safely from New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck last August, but her mid-city apartment and office were badly-damaged by rising water.
		Helen Prejean: Our sisters in the early 1980s were going through discernment and discussion and growth about where we ought to be placing our energies as religious women.
		There has to be a change of heart and you have to arrive at that change of heart by bringing people through their own emotions.
	www.bustedhalo.com /features/BustedSr.HelenPrejeanPart1.htm (1619 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean: The Real Woman Behind Dead Man Walking - April 1996 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
		When Sister Helen wrote her life experiences into a book a few years ago, she could scarcely imagine that it would be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and become the basis of a major motion picture.
		As she considered the challenge of the gospel, Sister Helen's comfortable, private spirituality was shaken to the core.
		Although Sister Helen had witnessed electrocutions in Louisiana, she and Robbins agreed that lethal injection would be the killing device in the film.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Apr1996/feature1.asp (4026 words)

	Sr. Helen Prejean
		Sister Helen Prejean, one of the most tireless advocates for the abolition of the death penalty, is the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States.
		Sister Helen has witnessed five executions in her native Louisiana and today educates the public about the death penalty by lecturing around the world, organizing and writing.
		Sister Helen joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957 and received a B.A. in English and Education from St. Mary’s Dominican College, New Orleans, in 1962 and an M.A. in Religious Education from St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada in 1973.
	www.willsworld.com /~mvfhr/sr.htm (551 words)

	injusticebusters 2005 > > Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean's new book, Death of Innocents
		Sister Helen's account of her experiences with the criminal justice system, as a spiritual adviser to those condemned to death, is a wonderfully sad and disheartening exposé of a system where truth does not count -- only procedures.
		Sister Helen Prejean is an old-fashioned lover of liberty; she administers the kind of service the world loves, one person -- alone -- who speaks the truth, mocking the enemies of justice, freedom, truth, beauty and good.
		The three-day conference demonstrated very clearly how Sister Helen serves all of mankind, not only as spiritual adviser to those in prison facing the death penalty, and not only to her best friend, Ann, who was dying of cancer, but also to young people all over the world.
	www.injusticebusters.com /05/Prejean_Sr_Helen.shtml (1569 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean: pen-pal to the condemned
		Sister Helen was initially doubtful of the merits of putting her story on celluloid.
		Troubled by what she saw as the exploitation of St. Thomas, Sister Helen wrote to the pope, telling him the death penalty was being justified in terms of strict Catholic ideology.
		Sister Helen says Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pope's principal thinker on church doctrine, was disturbed that Catholic prosecutors were using the catechism for their campaign.
	www.texnews.com /religion97/sis112297.html (1125 words)

	03.01.2006 - Helen Prejean brings her sister act to Berkeley
		Sister Helen Prejean can do both, and last Thursday evening the renowned nun, writer, and anti-death-penalty activist addressed an audience of more than 300 in the campus's Chan Shun Auditorium.
		One could see that this encounter with Sheehan at Berkeley had just entered Prejean's repertoire, and was likely to be told and retold on the national lecture circuit, where she spends much of her time.
		Prejean, 66, is often asked about the rigors of her travel schedule; she told her campus audience (and, earlier, her Berkeleyan interviewer) that as an activist she is "quickened," not emptied, by her exchanges with strangers.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2006/03/01_Prejean.shtml (2668 words)

	Helen Prejean - Resources for Teachers and Students
		Explore: In December of 2000, Helen Prejean presented the Secretary General of the United Nations a petition bearing 2.5 million signatures calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty.
		Write: In an open letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania, Helen Prejean observed that more than 90% of the inmates on Pennsylvania's death row had not been able to afford a lawyer during their trials, and were therefore represented by the same state that sentenced them to death.
		Additional resource: Helen Prejean maintains an official website, which contains an extensive bibliography, and provides the opportunity to contact her directly.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Prejean/lesson.html (508 words)

	SLU News-Sr. Helen Prejean rescheduled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Helen’s appearance, postponed earlier because of Hurricane Rita, will launch a new social justice lecture series at Southeastern, said Yanyi K. Djamba of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, the series’ sponsor.
		Helen is a Louisiana native whose book, “Dead Man Walking,” was number one on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
		Helen and Sean Penn as a death row inmate.
	www2.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/Prejean-rescheduled.html (364 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean to Lecture \| College of the Holy Cross
		Lecture by Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. Critically acclaimed author and well-known member of the death penalty abolition movement, Sr.
		Born in 1939 in Baton Rouge, La., Prejean began her crusade to abolish the death penalty as a poor nun willing to correspond with a prisoner.
		According to Tom Landy, sociology professor and associate director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, "People who have ever heard Sister Helen Prejean speak - whether they are pro-death penalty or anti-death penalty - have told me that she is one of the most extraordinary speakers they have ever heard.
	www.holycross.edu /publicaffairs/features/2001-2002/prejean (353 words)

	Sister Helen Prejean
		Sister Helen has served on the board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1985–1995, and has served as Chairperson of the Board from 1993–1995.
		On December 18, 2000 S. Helen, Paul Hoffman, board member of Amnesty International and Mario Marizziti, representative of The St. Egidio Community in Rome, Italy presented Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the U.N. with 2.5 million signatures from people all over the world who are calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.
		Helen examines how flaws inextricably entwined in the death penalty system inevitably lead to innocent people being executed and render the system unworkable.
	www.prejean.org (1727 words)

	On death row - interview with Sister Helen Prejean - Interview Interview - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sister Helen Prejean is leading a passionate campaign against the death penalty, asking the hard questions as no one has before.
		Challenging criminologists, government officials, and even the pope himself, Roman Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean's courageous memoir about her experiences with prisoners on death row, Dead Man Walking [Vintage], shook the moral ground on which the divisive issue of the death penalty has long stood.
		Robbins spoke with Sister Helen at her home in a New Orleans housing project, where she was finishing a new book on the role of women in the church.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n1_v26/ai_17873355 (949 words)

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