This passage, found in the book "Dead Man Walking", written by Sister Helen Prejean, speaks directly about the theme of this book: the morality of Capital Punishment. ... Capital Punishment, Millard argues to the Board, "as practiced in the United States is a poor man's punishment. ... Her friendship with Millard opened her eyes to a world where not all races are treated equal, he told her of case after case, where black men were tried before all white juries and that within Louisiana every juvenile that been executed had been a black, who's victim was white and who had been tried b...

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Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like all good bosses, Paul had his right hand man, the guy you would talk to if Paul wasn't around. ... The day the most remarkable prisoner The Green Mile had ever seen started with Percy yelling, "dead man walking!" ... Brutal, Pauls right hand man, told Paul to get out of the cell. ... Eduard was Cajun, a French man from New Orleans. ...

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• Grade Level: High School