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Dead Man Walking at London Coliseum: 'worth the 25-year wait to see this opera finally staged in London'

4/5 English National Opera gives popular show based on Death Row memoir its first full staging in London

Evening Standard

Dead Man Walking review – searing honesty and humanity in ENO’s staging of Heggie’s compelling opera

The first staging in the UK of Heggie and Terrence McNally’s adaptation of the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean is an anguished reflection on truth, compassion and capital punishment, sung with empathy and pathos

The Guardian - UK

How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office hit, and critics lavished it with praise. Lead actress Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser to a…

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5 new Prime Video movies with over 91% on Rotten Tomatoes to stream in June

With three crime movies, a sports drama, and a war epic, these are 5 new Prime Video movies you should stream this month.

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America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die

Desolate spectacle of executions ramps up as the landscape of states’ laws on capital punishment is as riven as the US itself

The Guardian - US

Helen Prejean: Why This Nun Is Fighting To End the Death Penalty

Billy Binion speaks to Sister Helen Prejean about her activism to end the death penalty, as depicted in her book Dead Man Walking.

Reason

Sister Helen Prejean on Capital Punishment, Justice, and Meeting Victims' Families

"Jesus said, 'Love your enemy.' Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason.

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New Documentary 'Rebel Nun' Chronicles Life Of Sister Helen Prejean

Explore the impactful journey of Sister Helen Prejean in the documentary 'Rebel Nun,' highlighting her fight against the death penalty.

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Christian Coalition Escalates Fight Against Death Penalty, Calls For Fair Hearings And Clemency

Christian leaders intensify fight against death penalty, argue for fair hearings and mercy for inmates on death row.

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Nun accuses Louisiana of blocking death row clemency appeals in lawsuit

Sister Helen Prejean, known for 1995 film Dead Man Walking, accues board of pardons of breaking state’s public meetings law

The Guardian - US

Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version

Jake Heggie's version of “Dead Man Walking” reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean

The Independent UK

US court halts execution of man who received ‘unfair’ trial

The Supreme Court put the execution of Richard Glossip indefinitely on hold in a ruling on Friday.

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Activist Sister Helen Prejean has counseled popes, governors on death penalty: ‘She’s not a scold; she appeals to your reason’

Prejean, 84, addresses Catholic lawyers in Chicago, reminisces about fights against capital punishment — and will likely attend her seventh execution later this year.

The Independent UK

State, defense request another stay of execution for Glossip

Oklahoma's top prosecutor and defense attorneys are both seeking another delay in the scheduled execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip

The Independent UK

From Kim Kardashian to Amanda Knox: Famous names who have joined fight for Melissa Lucio and why

With two days to go until Melissa Lucio will be executed in Texas for a crime she says she didn’t commit, a growing number of famous faces have joined the fight to save her life. Rachel Sharp writes

The Independent UK

Nun who wrote ‘Dead Man Walking’ joins calls to save Melissa Lucio from execution

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on 27 April over the death of her two-year-old daughter which her attorneys insist was ‘a tragedy, not a murder’

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