Helen Prejean: Death Row's Nun

In Helen Prejean: Death Row's Nun, Joyce Duriga explores Sister Helen's life growing up in upper-middle-class Louisiana, her growing awareness of the injustice of the death penalty, her introduction to death-row inmates Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, and how she came to understand her role in prison ministry.

No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ. She has confronteds lawyers and judges, politicians and the media, to expose the indignity and injustice of the death penalty and inhumane prison conditions.

PEOPLE OF GOD is a series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth- or twenty-first-century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.