Dead_Man_Walking_Review

Dead Man Walking Review In the novel Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, was asked to correspond with Pat Sonnier, a man sentenced to die by electric chair for the murder of two teen- agers, which he did not commit. Dead Man Walking, gives a moving account of her spiritual journey as she became knowledgeable about our system of capital punishment through her involvement in the lives and deaths of several convicted murderers, their families, the families of their victims and the people whose job it is to carry out executions. Sister Helen brings a profound compassion to all the people she meets, reflecting on her experiences from an engaged Christian perspective. She helps the two death row inmates by loving them even though society despises them. The soul of a man is reached and articulated through the assumption of those who love without judgment. Sister Helen's novel is a classic example of the practice of attentive love, and of its consequences. Throughout the novel, Sister Helen quotes Albert Camus extensively on resistance to the death penalty. The soul comes into articulation not through the discipline of punishment, but through the practice of love, a process that the death penalty may initiate. When a human sister, man, helen, death, sonnier, patrick, love, robert, eyes, through, soul, two, row, one, human, about, helen, willie, seems, punishment, novel, never, men, loving, look, executions, even, done, close, being, act, wrong, worried, without, watch, walking, touch, time, though, tells, souls, relationship, reached, public, process, practice, people, penalty