description: When Helen Prejean is invited to write to a prisoner on Death Row who brutally killed two teenagers, she has little idea how much it will change her life. Although she abhors his crime, she befriends one man as he faces the electric chair. Dead Man Walking is Helen Prejean's gripping true story, which formed the basis for a major motion picture event. As powerful an indictment of the death penalty as has ever been written, her book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
language: English
title: Dead Man Walking
titlecomplete: Dead Man Walking
genres: Social Justice, History, Religion, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime, Politics
ratings_count: 8080
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
publisher: Borders/Recorded Books