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Sister Helen Prejean and Dead Man Walking Teaching Kit

This teaching kit and curriculum guide includes viewable and downloadable primary sources that correspond to the chapters of Dead Man Walking.

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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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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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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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Letter from Robert Lee Willie to Sr. Helen Prejean, December 15, 1984

Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: 9

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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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Letter from Sr. Helen Prejean to Jason Epstein, March 23, 1992

Corresponding chapter in Dead Man Walking: Acknowledgements

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