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Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences

Stirring up death penalty talk in Eureka Author of 'Dead Man Walking' to share 'good Southern storytelling' about her experiences Sunday, January 20, 2008 By DAVE HANEY OF THE JOURNAL STAR EUREKA - A Louisiana man convicted and sentenced to death for raping and murdering an 18-year-old girl and murdering her 16-year-old boyfriend in 1977. Another Louisiana man convicted of stabbing a woman in 1984. A Virginia man who in 1985 was charged and later convicted of raping and murdering a woman outside a Virginia Beach nightclub. And a Texas woman who is now on death row for killing the 3-month-old boy she was baby-sitting. 'Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues' - What: Presentation by Sister Helen Prejean, a death penalty opponent whose Pulitzer Prize-nominated book was the basis for the feature film "Dead Man Walking...continue to full post

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