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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate (1st Edition) by Sister Helen Prejean, Susan Sarandon (Afterword), Tim Robbins (Afterword), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Preface), Dead Man Walking, Helen (C.S.J.) Prejean Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-679-75131-9 / 0679751319 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75131-1 / 9780679751311 When Chava Colon from the Prison Coalition asks me one January day in 1982 to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate, I say, Sure. The invitation seems to fit with my work in St. Thomas, a New Orleans housing project of poor black residents. Not death row exactly, but close. Thus begins Sister Helen |