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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who had been sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun found know a guy who was simply as terrified as he'd once been frightening. At the same time frame, she found know the groups of the victims and the men whose job it had been to execute him--men who frequently harbored doubts concerning the rightness of what they certainly were doing.Out of this terrible intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our bodies of capital punishment. Facing both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the requirements of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, Dead-Man Walking is definitely an unparalleled consider the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that's both informative and disastrous.