Helen Prejean: Death Row's Nun

Helen Prejean: Death Row's Nun

AUTHOR: Joyce Duriga

 No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ. 

In Helen Prejean: Death Row’s Nun, Joyce Duriga explores Sister Helen’s life growing up in upper-middle-class Louisiana, her growing awareness of the injustice of the death penalty, and its disproportionate targeting of the poor and minorities, and her introduction to death-row inmates Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie.

Through this book, readers will witness her life’s work with victims and their families, and see how she came to understand her role in prison ministry, not only as an activist but as a champion fighting for hope and restorative justice for those facing the death penalty.

2017

Paperback

101 pp