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Helen Prejean, CSJ
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I’ve been working to educate the American public about the ugly reality of the death penalty for over 40 years. I’m not stopping now!

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LOUISIANA: RALLY THIS SUNDAY 2-4PM GOVERNOR'S MANSION.
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A poem for the times from my co-worker, Rose Vines.
The Time of the Wasps Now is not the time for your usual life. Within our hive the wasps have already launched their swift assault, overwhelming our guards, killing the workers, turning their avid eyes on our pooled, collective honey. They come for our eggs, too. We have expected the assault— they are wasps, after all— but not the shape of that assault, and that could well be our undoing if we pretend that now is the time for our usual life. Now is the time to shower love on those who wield the pen; the poets, the comics, the resolute reporters, yes, but also on those who build palisades and pitfalls from statutes and precedents, who slow the charge of the lawless now empowered. Now is not the time for your usual life. Use normality as a ruse, silence as a shield, but not as a path. Hold close your joy and love and frolicsomeness— the you that longs for your usual life— while in safe places you share rumblings and connections and lay smart plans to make a swarming cacophony in unsafe spaces. Now is the time of the wasps who bring their billions to crush our millions. But they are few.
February 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The next edition of the Graphic Dead Man Newsletter traces the book's six-year journey (so far). The newsletter is out tomorrow. graphicdeadmanwalking.substack.com
Colourful drawing of the life cycle of a butterfly.
January 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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This Giving Tuesday, please consider helping my work to end the death penalty. We are facing strong headwinds!
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December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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On this day and on each day I am thankful to know Manuel Ortiz. He shows such extraordinary grace and courage after being on death row for 30 years for a crime he did not commit. I have promised him I shall tell his story to the world, and that's the book I'm working on now.
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Sister Helen Prejean standing beside Manuel Ortiz on death row at Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary. Photo taken in 2009 at Christmas. They are standing in front of a Christmas tree.
November 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM