Sister Helen Prejean: the Bible belt and the death belt are the same
Sr. Prejean, Paris, 2007
Prejean sees the problem is a US “culture of violence” that needs to change. There is a “seesaw” view of the world, “justice means, he’s dead- he dies.” Prejean has seen the pressure this puts on the families of victims to ask for the death penalty. Society says, “you have to be for the death penalty or it looks like you did...

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