Dead Man Walking Review

A detailed Summary of 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 initia

convincing means of demonstrating to the citizens of this country that capital punishment

The great misfortune of the lives of Patrick Sonnier and Robert Willie is that the

Approximate Word count = 1069
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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