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August 29, 2006 - Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author, to visit Hastings College
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, will speak at Hastings College, Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in French Memorial Chapel. She will address “Dead Man Walking: In the Service of Life.” The public is invited to the free lecture.
August 29, 2006 - Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author, to visit Hastings College
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, will speak at Hastings College, Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in French Memorial Chapel. She will address “Dead Man Walking: In the Service of Life.” The public is invited to the free lecture. Prejean will reflect upon her years of working with prisoners on death row. She has witnessed five executions in Louisiana and continues to counsel not only inmates on death row, but also families of murder victims.
In 1996, Dead Man Walking was developed into a major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen and Sean Penn as a death row inmate. The movie received four Oscar nominations. Sarandon won the award for Best Actress. There will be two free screenings of the film Dead Man Walking prior to the lecture:
- Thursday, Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m., Hastings YWCA, 604 N. St. Joseph Ave., Hastings, Neb.
- Monday, Sept. 4, 7:30 p.m., French Memorial Chapel, Hastings College
Prejean’s prison ministry began in 1981 when she dedicated her life to the poor of New Orleans. She became pen pals with Patrick Sonnier, convicted killer of two teenagers, who was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. She visited Sonnier repeatedly as his spiritual advisor.
Dead Man Walking was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was number one on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks. The book also made the International Best Seller List and was translated into 10 different languages.
