books by Helen Prejean

books by Helen Prejean

books:

Helen Prejean

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty In The United States

Helen Prejean

Vintage, 1994

Inspiring book & Film
This is both a book and a movie that you need to interact with. Particularly in a day and age when there is a movement here in Canada to try to bring the death penalty back. The book is much more in depth than the movie. The book profiles the first three men that Sr. ...

Dead Man Walking: The Shooting Script (A Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book)

Tim Robbins, Helen Prejean

Newmarket Press, 1997

A Compelling Look Inside the Creative Process
The script of Tim Robbins' outstanding film includes footnotes that detail some of inner workings of filmmaking: why some scenes don't work, why some scenes are cut, etc. If you love the movie, certainly one of the best of the 1990's, check this one out, and seek out ...

Welcome To Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row

Northeastern, 2004

I learned a lot from this book
I am 16 years old and I think this book was one of the best books I have ever read.I don't read very much but I read this book in about 3 hours. It tells you the truth about being on death row. And has changed my mind about the death penalty. I am going to recommend ...

Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)

Bell Gale Chevigny

Arcade Publishing, 2000

put your life in perspective
It is easy to write off what these folks have to say-- but our nation needs to hear about the injustice of our prison system

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

Helen Prejean

Vintage, 2006

Innocent people are framed and EXECUTED!
Abolitionists (against capital punishment) have known empirically that innocent people have been, and still are, framed, convicred of capital murder, and executed. YES, INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE EXECUTED. In this book, Sister Helen Prejean discusses actual cases where this ...

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Helen Prejean

Canterbury Press Norwich, 2005

Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, were innocent, but their juries were blocked from seeing all the evidence and their defence teams were incompetent. 'The readers of this book will be the first "jury" with ...