Convocation: Sister Helen Prejean

Author of Dead Man Walking, Roman Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean offers a candid and intense meditation on the complex and troubling issue of capital punishment. Her book was made into an Academy award winning film starring Susan Sarandon. Prejean counsels death-row inmates and their families around the country, and has written her second book The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. The title of her presentation was "Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues." Read a story about Sister Helen Prejean's visit in the Jan. 14, 2011 issue of The Carletonian.



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