Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and author of the 31-week New York Time’s Best Seller Dead Man Walking, spoke at the University on Tuesday, Oct. 18 in the EMU Ballroom. Her program, “Life, Death, and the Struggle for Human Rights”, was followed by a book signing shortly afterward.
Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun, a former spiritual adviser to death row inmates, and a death penalty abolition activist, spoke in the Ballroom at the EMU on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Prejean wrote Dead Man Walking, a book detailing her correspondences and spiritual advisory to Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, two men sentenced to death by the state of Louisiana.
Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and anti-death penalty activist, spoke about her personal experience with death row inmates Tuesday night. Prejean was a spiritual adviser to inmates sentenced to capital punishment in Louisiana.
Sister Helen Prejean spoke at the University on Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011 as a part of a Oregon-wide tour, with events in Eugene, Salem and Portland, meant to promote awareness of the death penalty. Prejean founded the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and is an internationally-renowned capital punishment activist.
Some three hundred people piled into the EMU Ballroom to listen to Sister Helen Prejean’s “Life, Death, and the Struggle for Human Rights” program on Tuesday night. Prejean’s described her perspective on the death penalty and explained how it negatively shapes society and the human race as a whole.
Sister Helen Prejean took questions from audience members after she concluded her “Life, Death, and the Struggle for Human Rights” program that took place in the EMU Ballroom Oct. 18, 2011. University freshman Clara Piazzola asked Prejean for her opinion on whether there were innocent people on Death Row.
Sister Helen Prejean smiles after receiving a standing ovation by the audience of her program “Life, Death, and the Struggle for Human Rights” held in the EMU Ballroom. Prejean trip to the University includes both the program held Tuesday night and a panel discussion held Wednesday night on international human rights
Sister Helen Prejean held a book signing after her “Life, Death, and the Struggle for Human Rights” program Tuesday night. University freshman Erica Leishman was among those first in line and had Prejean’s second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, signed by the author.
