only thing they knew about him was that he had just brutally kidnapped,

raped, and killed 2 teens? Think of how Sister Helen Prejean might have

felt in her book Dead Man Walking. When Sister Helen Prejean decided to

go to St. Thomas to help the poor, she was setting off on a journey that

would change her life forever. Sister Helen will go through ridicule,

taunting, and sneers trying to save a death-row inmate, Patrick Elmo

Sonnier, from the electric chair, only to have to witness his execution;

prompting her to fall into an abyss, from which she emerges and devotes

her life to abolishing the death penalty.

The first step in Sister Helen's journey is when Sister Helen steps

through the threshold and first goes to meet Patrick Sonnier. One day in

January of 1982, Chava Colon, a person from the Prison Coalition, asks

Sister Helen to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate; not knowing

what¯s in store for her, Sister Helen agrees. Soon after, she finds out the

crime Elmo Patrick Sonnier and his b

through to save Pat, Sister Helen falls into the abyss of her journey when

death in the electric chair, but I¯m talking about from the painstaking

beginning her transformation. When Sister Helen acknowledges that

help him with his appeals in court. During this time, the victim¯s families,

farewell of °I love you, too±(pg. 93) it¯s evident Sister Helen tries to numb

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Approximate Word count = 760
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)