Forgiving The Dead Man Walking

Author : Debbie Morris
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310231876
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgiving the Dead Man Walking written by Debbie Morris and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Willie, the death-row prisoner in Dead Man Walking, was convicted of raping a woman who tells her story here.

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787699
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Man Walking written by Helen Prejean and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review 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 Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.

Author : Michael L. Varnado
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589801561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victims of Dead Man Walking written by Michael L. Varnado and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid eyewitness account of the investigation into the murder of Faith Hathaway by Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro.

Author : Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307560422
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

Author : Carrie Prejean
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596986026
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Standing written by Carrie Prejean and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deposed Miss California sets the record straight, explaining her views on a host of topics, including events during and since her controversial comments that earned her both supporters and harsh critics.

Author : D. D. De Vinci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977188109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Family Walking written by D. D. De Vinci and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781853116827
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Innocents written by Helen Prejean and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, were innocent, but their juries were blocked from seeing all the evidence and their defence teams were incompetent. 'The readers of this book will be the first "jury" with access to all the evidence the trail juries never saw', she says. The Death of Innocents shows how race, prosecutorial ambition, poverty and publicity determine who dies and who lives. Prejean raises profound constitutional questions about the legality of the death penalty.

Author : Michael L. Varnado
Publisher : Writers Advantage Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loss of Faith written by Michael L. Varnado and published by Writers Advantage Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief investigator who discovered the body gives his eyewitness account of the criminal investigation and trial resulting from the 1980 abduction, rape, and murder of Faith Colleen Hathaway in Louisiana. Robert Lee Willie, Helen Prejean's "Dead Man Walking," was convicted of this crime and executed at Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Author : Terra Jolé
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 168261462X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fierce at Four Foot Two written by Terra Jolé and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica Stern
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006162666X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Denial written by Jessica Stern and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by critics and readers alike, Jessica Stern's riveting memoir examines the horrors of trauma and denial as she investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist. Alone in an unlocked house, in a safe suburban Massachusetts town, two good, obedient girls, Jessica Stern, fifteen, and her sister, fourteen, were raped on the night of October 1, 1973. The rapist was never caught. For over thirty years, Stern denied the pain and the trauma of the assault. Following the example of her family, Stern—who lost her mother at the age of three, and whose father was a Holocaust survivor—focused on her work instead of her terror. She became a world-class expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder who interviewed extremists around the globe. But while her career took off, her success hinged on her symptoms. After her ordeal, she no longer felt fear in normally frightening situations. Stern believed she'd disassociated from the trauma altogether, until a dedicated police lieutenant reopened the case. With the help of the lieutenant, Stern began her own investigation to uncover the truth about the town of Concord, her own family, and her own mind. The result is Denial, a candid, courageous, and ultimately hopeful look at a trauma and its aftermath.