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Sister Helen Prejean exchanges letters with death row inmate Patrick Sonnier.
Chapter 1Prejean becomes Sonnier's spiritual adviser and begins visiting him in prison.
Chapter 2Prejean and Millard Farmer meet the governor, who will not commute Sonnier's death sentence.
Chapter 3Prejean, Millard, and others speak before the Pardon Board, which refuses commutation for Sonnier.
Chapter 4Prejean visits the Harveys and understands their rage at the loss of their daughter, Faith.
Chapter 6| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | At the beginning of the book Sister Helen Prejean agrees to become a pen pal to a death row inmate in Louisiana's Angola... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Patrick Sonnier is excited to meet Prejean, and he puts her on the prison visitor list. He requests having her as his sp... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Prejean contacts Millard Farmer, an Atlanta attorney who helps death row prisoners. Farmer has reviewed Patrick Sonnier'... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Prejean gets permission to carry a letter from Eddie Sonnier to the governor stating that Patrick is not guilty of the m... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Prejean is deeply shaken after the execution and helps finalize the arrangements for Sonnier's funeral and burial. Angol... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | To fill her in, Farmer tells Prejean about Robert Willie who, with accomplice Joe Vaccaro, went on an eight-day "rampage... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | On her way home Prejean thinks about Faith Hathaway's murder and her parents' anguish. "Great as the sea is thy sorrow,"... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Millard Farmer has recruited the lawyer John Craft to represent Robert Willie at his Pardon Board hearing. Prejean is at... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | An interview with the Harveys reveals they are angry with Prejean. They feel she "used them" to support her argument bef... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | After Willie's execution Prejean is interviewed by the assembled press. Vernon Harvey is interviewed as well about his w... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Prejean hesitates meeting with the Harveys, who rally at every execution at Angola. Prejean wonders, "On what common gro... Read More |
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