An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
by
Helen Prejean, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
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...