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'Dead Man Walking' author here, Nov. 9
Posted November 1, 2006; 10:52 p.m.
Sister Helen Prejean, author of the book "Dead Man Walking," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in McCosh 10.
Prejean, a prominent death penalty opponent, will deliver a lecture
titled "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues" and will sign books
afterward.
In 1982, Prejean began visiting a death row inmate in the Louisiana
State Penitentiary. She became his spiritual adviser and accompanied
him to his execution. After doing the same for another inmate, she
wrote "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in
the United States," which became a bestseller and was nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness
Account of Wrongful Executions," discusses the execution of prisoners
who were possibly innocent of the crimes for which they were killed.
Prejean, who lives in New Orleans, is the founder of the Moratorium
Campaign, a group that seeks to halt the death penalty, and Survive,
which provides counseling and support to the families of murder victims.
Prejean's visit, her first to the University, is sponsored by Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion,
the Council of the Humanities, Dollars & Sins, the Office of
Religious Life, the Pace Center and several other groups.