Amanpour: Helen Prejean, Rob Schenck and Crawford Allan

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sister Helen Prejean, author of "River of Fire", talks about providing dignity to death row inmates in their last moments. Her religiosity and kindness inspired the Oscar winning film "Dead Man Walking". Our Michel Martin sits down with Reverend Rob Schenck, evangelical minister and author of "My Words Led to Violence. Now Trump's Are Too". Schenck was a prominent figure in an aggressive anti-abortion movement, whose words led to the fatal shooting of a doctor; after years of soul searching, he warns of the very real dangers of hate-filled rhetoric. Crawford Allan, senior director at WWF and TRAFFIC Wildlife Crime Initiative, explains the illegal cheetah trade and why their numbers are dwindling in the wild.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	You're counting down the time to die.
0:11.0	It's the most surreal thing that you can imagine in the world.
0:15.8	The Trump administration brings back the federal death penalty and America's
0:20.2	most famous opponent, Sister Helen Pre-Gis,
0:23.0	joins us with her new spiritual memoir.
0:26.0	Then, why this evangelical minister regrets his incendiary language,
0:31.0	why President Trump's words worry him now.
0:34.0	Plus,
0:35.0	People who have a cheet as a pet are causing the species to go extinct.
0:40.0	The beautiful endangered cheetah cubs shipped from the wild to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. Sister Helen Pre-J-G-Anhous spent her life fighting death.
1:08.0	More specifically, the death penalty. As one of the most famous anti-capital punishment campaigners, she has demonstrated
1:15.2	superhuman levels of compassion to people on death row, often staying with them
1:20.5	till the very end. It is an extraordinary life that inspired the
1:24.2	Oscar-winning film Dead Man Walking and now she's putting the religious
1:28.7	teachings that guided her down on paper in her new memoir River of Fire my spiritual journey.
1:35.5	The book comes out just as her advocacy is becoming more relevant than ever.
1:40.1	The Trump administration is reinstating the federal death penalty, a policy that's been
1:44.9	dormant since 2003. Sister Pre-Gin has gone from wearing a habit as a young nun named Sister
1:51.5	Louis Augustine to serving God under her own name and in her own clothes.
1:57.0	She joined me from New York to talk about the moral duty of religious life. Sister Helen Pre-Jon, welcome to our program.
2:05.0	Thank you, glad to be here.
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