Word: prejean
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...naive," Prejean said. "I thought the courts were a place where everyone went and told the truth...
...Prejean, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, decried the continuing use of capital punishment in the U.S--in comparison to Europe, where virtually all countries have repealed the measure--and the conditions in which Death Row inmates live...
Dead Man Walking tells the story of Prejean's relationship as a spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers sentenced to die in Louisiana's Angola State Prison...
...book spent 31 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and won a Pulitzer Prize nomination before it was made into a popular movie in 1995. Susan Sarandon, who played Prejean in the movie, won an Oscar for the role...
Since 1998, Prejean has led a petition drive called "Moratorium 2000," an effort to repeal the death penalty in the U.S. and across the world. She has collected almost two million signatures...