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Setting the Stage: Original Documents Inspire Performance
In 1982, Sr. Helen Prejean, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, began corresponding with a death row inmate, Patrick Sonnier, at Angola (the Louisiana State Penitentiary). She became his spiritual adviser and accompanied him to his execution, later writing a non-fiction account of her experience with Pat Sonnier, and