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Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean.
Van Pelt Library HV8699.U5 P74 1994
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Van Pelt Library HV8699.U5 P74 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prejean, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- United States.
- Capital punishment--Religious aspects.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 276 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First Vintage Books edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1994]
- Summary:
- In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed. Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion that embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier's walk to the electric chair.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0679751319 :
- OCLC:
- 29357709
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