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Cousins By Blood

Episode 46: Sister Helen Prejean

Cousins By Blood

Matt Duff

True Crime

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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An interview with Ivan's Spiritual Advisor.

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And so were you born in Louisiana?

0:02.0

Yeah, born in Baton Rouge.

0:04.0

Now what's your favorite Cajun food?

0:07.0

Oh man, I mean now we got to think about this seriously of all the questions life death questions what's best

0:14.3

caging food. I love blackened catfish. I love red beans and rice. I love stew chicken. I love stew chicken I love gumboo and I love jamblya When this thing goes to court in trial, I have one shot and one opportunity to be not

0:39.5

guilty or I go to prison in death row.

0:41.8

Mm-hmm.'s the reality of it.

0:45.0

We have busted alibis, we have caught people in lies.

0:50.0

This is just insane because everybody's pointing the finger at somebody else.

0:54.0

You just don't hear every day walking in somebody's house

0:58.0

they're going to take the plastic out and pop somebody.

1:00.0

So he could get the execution date pretty much any day?

1:04.0

Yeah. There's no impediment.

1:08.0

This is cousins by blood.

1:15.0

I'm sister Helen Trajan. I'm a Catholic nun.

1:17.0

I joined the convent after high school at the ripe age of 18,

1:22.0

what we call the child bride of Christ and became a nun and was a

1:27.2

teacher and worked in a Catholic parish in New Orleans teaching scripture and then I awakened to the death penalty into

1:35.8

social justice, which I told about in a book I wrote called River Fire, because I

1:42.1

was out in the suburbs for a good part of my life and I had a very privileged life growing up.

1:48.0

I mean like during the Jim Crow days in Baton Rouge we had black servants. I never even thought of the whole

1:55.4

segregation thing and how that might make them feel. We even had the

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