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    I watched the movie about the dead man walking multiple times to get all backgrounds and thoughts was Great movie. Oh my goodness I never seen like this movie was the best movie!! I really believed that he is a human being doing the crime. But he had a very powerful ending. I was in tears after he confessed. The important woman who was a great example of faith was Sr. Helen Prejean the one of the world’s most well-known anti-death penalty activists. As a Catholic nun, she began her prison ministry

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    “Dead Man Walking” depicts a man, Matthew Poncelet, on death row. While on death row, Matthew pursues the council of Sister Helen Prejean. Matthew has been arraigned for murdering teenagers, Hope Percy and Walter Delacroix, and raping Hope. Sister Helen guides him to acknowledge what he has done and reorient his life towards God. She also provides him with legal council, attempting to adjust his death penalty sentence. By the resolution of the movie, Matthew has reoriented his life towards God; however

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    DEAD MAN WALKING      Dead Man Walking is a great book that deals with one of our nations most controversial issues: capital punishment. The books narrator, Sister Helen Prejean, discusses her personal views on capital punishment. She was a spiritual advisor and friend to two death row inmates; Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie. From her experiences, she developed views on the death penalty. She believed it was morally wrong and spoke openly about it. Sister Helen

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    The film Dead Man Walking depicts the life of an inmate sentenced to the death penalty through lethal injection. The film portrays prison as grim, isolated and lonely place. The life of prisoners in the film live in agony and suffering. The main issue with prison shown by the film is the death penalty. In specific the main character, Matthew Poncelet has been incarcerated for six years, still awaiting his execution. Furthermore, Matthew Poncelet appeals to another court showing the death penalty

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    The end of the film, Dead Man Walking, is definitely quite surprising. Throughout the film, the audience is given an insight into the lives of death row convict Matthew Poncelot and a nun guiding him to his death. The nun, Sister Helen Prejean, is torn throughout the film; she wants to help Matt own up to his monstrous acts as well as help the grieving families of Matt’s victim’s move on. What is perhaps the most shocking part of the film is the rollercoaster of flashbacks, leading the audience

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    even if there is no public support. It is self-sustained.” Life of David Gale directed by Alan Parker, and Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins are both films about redemption. The men in both films had no support from their society, until they contacted someone to listen to their story. The films have different approaches on how to redeem the main characters.Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have similarities and differences. In Life of David Gale, David Gale was about a professor at the University

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    The story, Dead Man Walking, is about a Catholic Nun, Sister Helen Prejean who begins to have communications with prison inmates who are death row for the murder of teenagers. She eventually decides to visit Patrick Sonnier, a man in prison and even becomes his spiritual advisor. It is through these interactions that she begins to have sympathy for those who are supposed to face a similar penalty, especially when she finds out that sometimes the people who are convicted are not the ones who committed

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    Just that nobody comes back. Maybe death is a gift.” says David, in the movie the life of David Gale. Dead Man Walking and The Life of David Gale are two movies like a very alike yet very different. These movies are both great movies in their own way. The Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have an abundant amount of similarities and numerous differences. The movies Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed

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    of a Dead Man Walking “Memories of a Dead Man Walking”, by Sister Helen Prejean is one of the most admired writings of all time, even coming out with a movie in 1995. The writing is about a nun who decides to become a spiritual advisor for an inmate that is on death row and the recollections of her time at the correctional facility. Sister Helen Prejean was changed throughout this process, especially how. Because of how author Sister Helen Prejean explains humanity in “Memories of a Dead Man Walking”;

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    Justice and Redemption: A Religious Journey in 'Dead Man Walking' by Sister Helen Prejean. In her book "Dead Man Walking," Sister Helen Prejean explores justice, redemption, and the death penalty in America. Through her experiences, Prejean challenges the moral and ethical foundations of capital punishment, revealing the strong connections between faith, justice, and human dignity, while contextualizing her religious journey within the broader socio-political and religious landscape of late 20th-century

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