Sister Helen

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row in Louisiana’s Angola State Prison named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” She’s now 81, and has been present at the executions of six men. Sister Helen’s book, Dead Man Walking, is about her time as a spiritual advisor to Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie. It was adapted into a movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	Are you in New Orleans? Yeah, I am.
0:34.0	How is New Orleans today?
0:36.0	It's fine from what I can see from my house.
0:40.0	New Orleans is New Orleans.
0:41.0	It's a great city. We're doing all right. But I got to tell you Phoebe, we just, my little brother just died yesterday. He got COVID, I'm in a moment of yeah he had a lot of
0:58.0	underlying conditions he was 76 and so he just it's just a terrible disease and you know we're Louisiana we love
1:09.0	people love being with each other and you know you can just see how people get it because they want to have
1:14.7	these gatherings and people you know drop their guard and it spreads and I think that's maybe
1:21.6	how he got it anyway.
1:24.0	But I'm at peace with it because he would have had such a terrible road
1:28.2	if he had made it through.
1:29.5	And so I'm glad God took him.
1:40.0	Is it, you've been around death for a long time or at certain moments. Is it any easier for you to mourn someone or accept death now that you've seen it and
1:50.6	seen it in such a public way but also in a private way with your own family.
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