Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States

Helen Prejean

278 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman...

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informative 90%
reflective 61%
challenging 57%
emotional 57%
sad 52%
inspiring 38%
dark 33%
hopeful 9%
tense 9%

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slow 22%

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