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Article: Nun who's fighting for killer s on death row; Joe Riley talks to America's most famous anti-death penalty campaigner who is about to give a lecture in Liverpool.(Features)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2005
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Byline: Joe Riley
BACK home, they call her the Mother Teresa of New Orleans.
A white nun who has found local celebrity working with the city's poor and oppressed blacks.
But Sister Helen Prejean has the international stage for even more grim - some would say sinister - reasons.
She is the prime abolitionist voice of conscience on America's Death Row: the woman portrayed with an Oscar-winning performance from Susan Sarandon in the movie Dead Man Walking.
Sister Helen has seen condemned men fry. She has seen them put to sleep like ...