Sr helen prejean biography of rory

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          Sister Helen Prejean was the last witness for the defense, which had called more than 40 witnesses during eight days in the trial's penalty.

        1. Sister Helen grew up in a well-off Baton Rouge family that still employed black servants.
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        3. RM GAEJRF–Anti death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean, who wrote the book Dead Man Walking, speaks at the launch of the opera production of the book, at.
        4. While Rory's high school, Chilton, was entirely fictional, her alma mater of Yale in New Haven, Conn., was very much not.

          5. Helen Prejean

          Death penalty abolition advocate

          Helen PrejeanCSJ (pray-ZHAHN;[1] born April 21, 1939) is a Catholicreligious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

          She is known for her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on death row for whom she served as spiritual adviser before their executions. In her book, she explored the effects of the death penalty on everyone involved.

          The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.

          Rory Stewart, a former foreign aid minister of the United Kingdom, is a senior adviser at GiveDirectly.

          It was also adapted as an opera by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, first produced in 2000 by the San Francisco Opera.

          Prejean served as the National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1993 to 1995.

          She helped establish The Moratorium Campaign, seeking an end to executions and conducting education on the death penalty. Prejean also founded the groups SURVIVE to help fa