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Sister Helen Prejean
1993
Nonfiction
Memoir
Dead Man Walking is written in the first person from the author's point of view.
Dead Man Walking is narrated in both the present and past tenses.
"Dead man walking" is a phrase guards on prisons' death row may cry out as they escort an inmate scheduled for an upcoming execution through the corridors of the prison.
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