[PAA-Discuss] Sister Helen Prejean, will speak at UHD March 3

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speak at UHD March 3


Monday, February 08, 2010 / UHD Public  Affairs 
Sister Helen Prejean, a nationally recognized opponent of the  death 
penalty who wrote “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death  Penalty 
in the United States,” will speak at the University of  Houston-Downtown at 6 
p.m., Wednesday, March 3, in the Wilhelmina Cullen  Robertson Auditorium on 
the third floor of the Academic Building. 

The  lecture is free and open to the public. Prejean’s appearance is part 
of the _Criminal  Justice_ 
(http://www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/publicservice/cj/index.html)  Speaker Series, sponsored by UHD’s _College of Public  
Service_ (http://www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/publicservice/) . Judith Harris, 
UHD lecturer in criminal justice who organized  Prejean’s lecture, said UHD 
students will gain a broader understanding of the  death penalty by 
attending the lecture. “Hearing a controversial and  internationally known 
spiritual adviser to death row inmates brings a new  perspective students cannot get 
from a textbook,” Harris  said.

Prejean’s book became an Academy-Award-Prejean’s book became an 
Academy-Award-<WBR>winning movie, “Dead  Man Walking,” in 1995. The movie portrayed 
Prejean’s experiences with death  row inmate Patrick Sonnier at the Louisiana 
State Penitentiary in Angola.  Actor Sean Penn played Sonnier’s character, 
Matthew Poncelet, and Susan  Sarandon played Prejean. Sarandon won an 
Academy Award fo

Prejean was Sonnier’s spiritual adviser, worked  to prevent his execution 
and stood by him until he was executed in the  electric chair. Her activism 
against capital punishment sparked a national  dialogue about the death 
penalty and helped shaped the Catholic Church’s  opposition to all state 
executions.

Prejean still campaigns against the  death penalty and counsels death row 
prisoners. She has been a spiritual  adviser to six more executed men. She 
published a second book, “The Death of  Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of 
Wrongful Executions,” in 2004.  

“Dead Man Walking,” the book, was nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize  and 
made the 1994 American Library Associates Notable Book List. The  
international best seller was No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for  31 
weeks and has been translated into 10 languages. 





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