Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the US
by:
Helen Prejean (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780788705878 (0788705873)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Mystery,
Religion,
Politics,
Crime,
Biography Memoir,
True Crime
Powerful. Review to come.
This is the story of a serial killer who enslaves people, usually black men, and tortures them by telling them the date the killer plans to execute them and then by keeping them locked in chains until that date, always reminding them of the date’s imminence. Sometimes, the killer tells them that if...
I read this book when Helen Prejean was back in the news for counseling Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after his conviction. Her central point is that how society treats its worst criminal offenders is a reflection on society as a whole, and she makes the argument that the death penalty is inhuman and cruel. Her...
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