Would anyone voluntarily sit in a room with a total stranger if the
             only thing they knew about him was that he had just brutally kidnapped,
             raped, and killed 2 teens? Think of how Sister Helen Prejean might have
             felt in her book Dead Man Walking. When Sister Helen Prejean decided to
             go to St. Thomas to help the poor, she was setting off on a journey that
             would change her life forever. Sister Helen will go through ridicule,
             taunting, and sneers trying to save a death-row inmate, Patrick Elmo
             Sonnier, from the electric chair, only to have to witness his execution;
             prompting her to fall into an abyss, from which she emerges and devotes
             her life to abolishing the death penalty.
             The first step in Sister Helen's journey is when Sister Helen steps
             through the threshold and first goes to meet Patrick Sonnier. One day in
             January of 1982, Chava Colon, a person from the Prison Coalition, asks
             Sister Helen to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate; not knowing
             what¡¯s in store for her, Sister Helen agrees. Soon after, she finds out the
             crime Elmo Patrick Sonnier and his brother, Eddie, have committed and
             wonder if she¡¯ll be able to face such a man. After writing for a while and
             a couple visits, Sister Helen gets attached to Patrick and starts trying to
             help him with his appeals in court. During this time, the victim¡¯s families,
             the LeBlancs and the Bourques, are dumbfounded to hear that there is a
             nun trying to protect a murderer from the death sentence, the man that
             killed their kids! However, the truth is that all Sister Helen wanted
             everyone to know was that she ¡°acknowledge[d] the evil Pat [had] done
             and [wanted to] make very clear that [she] in no way condone[d] his
             crime, but [she wanted] to show that [Pat was] not a monster but a
             human being like the rest of us ¡ that he deserve[d] punishment but not
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