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A sister, a savior against the status quo.(The Seattle Times)
Byline: Jerry Large
Sister Helen Prejean is one of those folks I could listen to all night long. She has a serious cause, but she also has a sense of humor and perspective that keep her grounded in the real world.
Sometimes people with causes lose some of that, but she hasn't. Maybe it's because she's from Louisiana and has a little spice in her. Prejean spoke to a packed room last week at Seattle's First Baptist Church. Elliott Bay Book Co. had her talking about her second book, "The Death of Innocents" ($25.95, Random House).
You may remember her first book, "Dead Man Walking," a best seller made into a movie with Sean Penn playing a death-row inmate and Susan Sarandon playing Sister Helen, who stood by him through his execution.
Well, she has accompanied six men through the process now and is spiritual adviser to a seventh, a man from El Salvador who is sentenced to die in Louisiana. He would have died last week if not for a stay of execution.
He's innocent, Prejean said last week. Her new book is about watching innocent men die, but more than that, it is another weapon in her war against the death penalty and her larger crusade for social justice.
She starts the book with the stories of two men whom she accompanied to their executions.
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