The film "Dead Man Walking", tells the story of a murder that took place by two men, who killed a teenage couple. This is the background of what the main story is about. Sister Helen Prejean (played by Susan Sarandon) is on a mission to heal the sins of one of the murderers, Matthew Poncelet (...
After reading a good book the reader's view of life's and life's complications and obligations should be clearer, at least for a time. How was your reading clarified your understand of people, institution, life and its confusion? I believe that after reading " Dead Man Walking" I have a much cl...
The Search for God's Opinion: An examination of social sin and capital punishment through Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking. "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man." ... In the book Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean writes about her experiences as a spiritual councilor to death row inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier in...
DEAD MAN WALKING Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a Catholic nun who exemplifies the compassion of Jesus in her work with death row prisoners. ... In the anguished minutes before this "dead man" walks to the execution chamber, she assures him that "Christ is here." ... A truly emotional and heart wrenching film, Dead Man Walking was an excellent movie because it portrayed the feelings of both the families of the victims and the murderer himself. ... Dead Man Walking also showed how the death penalty could be biased against the poor. ... When Hic...
