Seattle University A.A. Lemieux Library Academic Day 2002   Dead Man Walking

Author: Sister Helen Prejean

	> biography
	> interviews with Sister Helen Prejean
	> speeches
	> books and artcles by Sister Helen
	> Random House study guide
	> book reviews
	> sisterhood
	> tip of the iceberg

Biography

• Official Website of Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
• Biography - Touro College, includes Honors and Awards
• Helen Prejean - Profile Webzine - Resources for Catholic Educators, includes quotations and a biography

websites

• Frontline interview: Angel on Death Row
• Salon interview: Sympathy for the Devil - by Marc Bruno. Sister Helen Prejean talks about the condemned men who inspired "Dead Man Walking".
• KPFT Houston: A Live Nun Talking about Dead Man Walking - by Alan Moroney, made available via Suzzanne Vega's web site.
• New moral terrain: Sister Helen participated in a chat with Digital Freedom Network readers on March 27, 2002 on the problems with the death penalty and her efforts to lobby for a moratorium.
• The Voice of Dead Men: Interview with Sister Helen Prejean - by Vicki Quade, American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Human Rights 23(3), Summer 1996.
• The Real Woman Behind Dead Man Walking: By John Bookser Feister, St. Anthony's Messenger

Speeches

• Lecture at UH Law Center: January 23, 2002, Krost Auditorium, UH Law Center University of Houston, Internet Broadcast Archive. Listen to audio of speech, requires Real Player available from site.
• Drury University Convocation: March 1, 2001. Listen to audio of speech; requires Windows Media or Quicktime available from site.
• Keynote Address, First National Meeting on Care and Dying in Prisons/Jails, November 16, 1998, New York Adademy of Medicine, New York. Sponsored by Project on Death in America and The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture. Read or listen to the speech.
• Status Of The International Covenants On Human Rights: United Nations Commission on Human Rights (54th session) in Geneva March 23rd 1998, provided by Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the world.
• Warren Keith Henness Web Site: Speech by Sister Helen: speech at an inter-religious service to protest the dealth penalty on January 24, 1995 in Albany, New York. Provided on Keith Henness' web page, an inmate on Ohio dealth row.

Books and Articles by Sister Helen

websites

• Would Jesus pull the switch? Salt of the Earth: online resource for social Justice, 1997.
• Choose Life: Positive Futures Network, Fall 2000
• Walking Through Fire: The Other Side, September/December 1997 Volume 33, No. 5

book and sound recording

• Prejean, Helen
  Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
  New York: Random House 1993
  HV8699.U5 P74 1993 Lemieux Library
  
• Death penalty: A Catholic Viewpoint [sound recording]
  Prejean, Helen
  Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthonly Messenger Press, 1998.
  HV8699 .U5 P73 1998

Random House study guide

• Random House study guide to Dead Man Walking

Sisterhood Official Website of Sisters of St. Joseph Medaille

tip of the iceberg...

Dig deeper into these topics by exploring additional resources available both in the library and through the Library Homepage. Additional books & videos can be located through the "Library Catalog" link. Articles (including full-text) can be located in many general and specialized journal databases through the "Databases" link. Reference staff is also available to assist you in finding materials.

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