6/26/2023 0 Comments Dead man's walk book![]() ![]() Her arguments against capital punishment are well known but preached with passion: The death penalty is racist, barbaric, and doesn't deter crime innocent people get killed, etc. Both killers come off as repellently fascinating, but the real interest here is in Prejean, who begins as a frail but courageous soul, utterly out of place inside a prison, and winds up as a fierce spokeswoman for the right to life-even of those who have taken the lives of others. Her counsel takes hold, and Sonnier dies repentant-far more so than Prejean's second death-row friend, the arrogant Robert Lee Wilson, also a rapist and murderer. Letters lead to visits, and Prejean becomes spiritual advisor to the condemned man. Joseph of Medaille, agrees to correspond with convicted rapist and murderer Patrick Sonnier, awaiting execution in Louisiana's electric chair. In 1982, Prejean, a member of the Sisters of St. A Catholic nun's impassioned memoir of her friendship with two death-row inmates, coupled with a plea for the abolition of capital punishment. ![]()
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