Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 5
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Primary Sources
Letter from Elmo Patrick Sonnier to Sr. Helen Prejean, March 20, 1982.
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 1
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Letter from Elmo Patrick Sonnier to Sr. Helen Prejean, August 26, 1982
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 2
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Letter from Elmo Patrick Sonnier to Sr. Helen Prejean, August 11, 1983
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 2
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Photograph of Elmo Patrick Sonnier, c. 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 3
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Letter from Elmo Patrick Sonnier to Governor Edwin Edwards, April 1, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 4
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Letter from Eddie J. Sonnier to Governor Edwin Edwards, March 31, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 4
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Letter from Glenda Ann to Sr. Helen Prejean, April 7, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 5
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Letter and certificate from Louisiana State Penitentiary Lifers’ Association to Sr. Helen Prejean, April 12, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 3
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Photographs of Sr. Helen Prejean, Death Row A-B Tier, Louisiana State Penitentiary, c. 1984 by Wilburt Rideau
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 2
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Letters of opposition to Sr. Helen Prejean, c. April 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 5 Anonymous, annotated photocopy of letter to the editor newspaper clipping, “Reader’s antipathy isn’t for Catholic church but
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Sr. Helen Prejean’s statement on behalf of Robert Lee Willie before the Board of Pardons, November 19, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 8
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Photograph of Sr. Helen Prejean and Robert Lee Willie, November 19, 1984 by Times-Picayune newspaper photographer Gary Hunter
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 8
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Letter from Robert Lee Willie to Sr. Helen Prejean, December 15, 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 9
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Sr. Helen Prejean’s notes describing Robert Lee Willie’s execution, c. December 1984
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 9
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Photograph of Pilgrimage of Life March, March 1986 by Art Scott
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 11
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Letter to Louisiana citizens with Stand Up For Life event flyer, May 24, 1987
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 11
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Letter from Sr. Helen Prejean to Vernon and Elizabeth Harvey, January 20, 1988 and Sr. Helen Prejean’s opinion piece “Witnesses for the Execution”, published in the Times-Picayune, February 11, 1988
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 11
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Sr. Helen Prejean interview with former Governor Edwin W. Edwards, November 14, 1990.
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 3
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Letter from Sr. Helen Prejean to Jason Epstein, March 23, 1992
Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: Acknowledgements
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