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CATEGORIES: SPECIAL OCCASION;TRAVEL;APPOINTMENT
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SUMMARY:Sister Helen Prejean
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Sister Helen Prejean=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artscalendar.com/event/detail/440283562=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2009-04-16=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2009-04-16=0D=0A=0D=0ASister Helen Prejean, CSJ, a long-time activist seeking to abolish the death penalty in the U.S., will speak at Nova Southeastern University. Prejean's 1993 book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, was a No. 1 New York Times best-seller for 31 weeks and also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It recounts her experiences as spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, a convicted murderer who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Dead Man Walking was adapted into a 1996 motion picture written and directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Prejean and Sean Penn as a death-row inmate.
=0D=0A==0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:Thursday 7:00pm
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PRIORITY:3
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