Sister Helen Prejean and Dennis Fritz Meet in Chicago

indymedia.org.uk     09-Jul-2008          

Noted authors’ Dennis Fritz and Sister Helen Prejean, teamed up together in Chicago, Illinois, to speak at the Saint Vincent Catholic Church at DePaul University—against the arbitrary use of the death penalty. Dennis Fritz and Sister Helen Prejean This long-awaited event represented a powerful combination of these two people (along with other key, death penalty abolitionists), whose sole objective(s) are to bring about the much-needed, greater awareness against the use of the death penalty. Sister Helen Prejean is the author of Dead Man Walking, which was turned into a major motion picture in the middle 90’s. Her later released book, The Death of Innocents, is a powerful and poignant masterpiece, that exposes the in-depth atrocities of the death penalty. Sister Helen is a true-to-heart abolitionist, and is speaking all over... [read full story]                    


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