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 * 1) “I did these things,” he says. “I sat in judgment on these men like that—the guilty and the innocent. But who was I to sit in judgment? It still bothers me. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. 2. At the end of chapter 8, Howard Marsellus, the former Pardon Board chairman, apologizes to Prejean for the role he played in helping the state enforce the death penalty. 3. End of Chapter 8 4. Joshua Goldsmith
 * 1) "...the Sonniers rabbit hunting with .22 rifles, the couple parked in a lovers' lane, the Sonniers posing as security officers, the young people accused of 'trespassing' and handcuffed together in the back seat of a car and driven twenty miles down dark, abandoned roads, the Car stopping in an abandoned oil field and the girl taken off by herself in the woods and raped, the couple being ordered to lie face down on the ground."
 * 2) At this point Sister Helen Prejean gives a quick narrated account of the murder that brought the person to whom she is writing letters to.
 * 3) Page 16
 * 4) Jasiek Ottowicz


 * 1) "If someone I love should be killed, I know I would feel rage, loss, grief, helplessness, perhaps for the rest of my life. It would be arrogant to think I can predict how I would respond to such a disaster. But Jesus Christ, whose way of life I try to follow, refused to meet hate with hate and violence with violence. I pray for the strength to be like him. I cannot believe in a God who metes out hurt for hurt, pain for pain, torture for torture. Nor do I believe that God invests human representatives such power to torture and kill."
 * 2) This is narrative because Sister Helen is telling us how she would feel if one of her loved ones was killed. And then she states that as a follower of God it would be wrong to want revenge and she prays for the strength to be like Jesus.
 * 3) Page 21
 * 4) Lizzie Gibbs

> 2. This is when Prejean describes her thoughts of seeing Angola for the first time. SHe thinks that it looks similar to a slave plantation. She tells how even after Angola became a prison in 1901 it still has a legacy of abuse, and violence > 3. Page 24 > 4. Christian Stark > > 1. Narration between Sister Helen and Frank C. Blackburn. "But you're a Christian, a minister in your church, a man who professes to follow the way of life that Jesus taught. Yet you are the one who, witha nod of your head, signals the executioner to kill a man...Would Jesus pull the switch?"
 * 1) I see a column of inmates, most of them black, marching out to soybean and vegetable fields, their hoes over their shoulders. Behind and in front of the marching men, guards on horseback with rifles watch their charge. In antebellum days three cotton plantations occupied these 18,000 acres, worked by slaves from Angola in Africa . . . Since its beginnings in 1901, abuse, corruption, rage, and reform have studded its history.
 * 1) Frank and Sister discuss Christianity, the death penalty, and her relationship with Pat.
 * 2) Page 121-123
 * 3) Sydney Richards


 * 1) "He says, 'If only I knew I'd die right away when the first jolt hits me. Will I feel it? They say the body burns.' [Later, his death certificate will record that death took four to five minutes.]
 * 2) This is narration because Sister Helen is telling us what Pat said his fears were about the electric chair and what his death certificate said actually happened. This allows us to see that his death was not instant or painless and that it took him for or even five excruciating minutes to die.
 * 3) Page 44
 * 4) Seamus Appel


 * 1) "...ask what [C. Paul Phelps] thinks has been accomplished by this execution. 'Zero,' he says, 'absolutely nothing.' Nor does he think that executions prevent crime because in his view punishment, to be effective, must be 'swift, sure and fair.'"
 * 2) A narration of Sister Prejean speaking to someone knowledgeable about the death penalty on why it is not ideal.
 * 3) Page 102
 * 4) Will Christiansen


 * 1) "He [Vaccaro] would have slipped into anonymity behind Angola's walls, his fate sealed, his crime punished, and maybe these grieving parents could, over time, have laid down their grief and carried on with their lives. But now... all they can think, all they know, all they want is the death of their child's murderer that the state has promised them."
 * 2) Here, Sister Prejean is narrating how Faith's parents might have felt had the death penalty been illegal when Vaccaro was convicted; they would have more easily been able to let go of their daughter. But now, with the promise of the death penalty, they are determined to see "//justice//" done; they are fueled by a federally supported bloodlust (according to Sister Prejean).
 * 3) page 137
 * 4) Kyra McComas


 * 1) "From day one I was doing political things that were morally wrong,"..."The whole administration was corrupt from the top down, but I chose loyalty above integrity." -Marsellus
 * 2) This is the part of the book where Prejean talks about the officials that are part of the governmental system that executes people. She uses narrations from Major Coody at the prison and the former head of the Patrol Board, Marsellus. By doing this, Prejean shows through both narrations that people who have played their part in capital punishment have moral objections to what they are doing. In Marsellus' narration he adds to this by highlighting how corrupt the system is and how it is based on personal gain instead of doing what is right.
 * 3) pg 173
 * 4) Danielle Gaztambide


 * 1) "He's going to die, he's defiantly going to die. Just follow the stream, let him take the lead, accompany him. But be honest, don't condescend because he's going to die."
 * 2) What she is going though mentally to stay calm while with Pat during a last visit. Sister Helen is trying her best to keep conversation light with Pat. She doesn't want to condescend, as in bring up his crime and talk to him how he was wrong to commit it. This is hard for her because she's been in this situation and knows what is coming. So, she is letting the conversation go in the direction Pat takes it.
 * 3) Pg. 189
 * 4) Olivia Start


 * 1) "Just follow the stream, let him take the lead, accompany him. But be honest, don't condescend because he's going to die."
 * 2) Sister Helen is trying her best to keep a normal conversation going between her and Patrick. This is very difficult for her because she keeps thinking back to Pat's criminal past and that in a very short time, he is going to die.
 * 3) Pg. 189
 * 4) Elliott McGill

2. This is when Prejean describes her thoughts of seeing Angola for the first time. SHe thinks that it looks similar to a slave plantation. She tells how even after Angola became a prison in 1901 it still has a legacy of abuse, and violence


 * 1) "He sits in the chair and the guards begin to strap him in. . .and kill him. This time I do not close my eyes. I watch everything."
 * 2) Sister Helen is describing what happens to Robert after he tells the Harveys that he hopes they find relief in his death. How he is strapped in and how Sister Helen watches Roberts death and adds how she didn't do that with Pat.
 * 3) Pg. 211
 * 4) Emily Burden

1. "When the jolts hit him, the way he was strapped to the chair..." 2.Sister helen describes the execution of Willie 3. Pp. 213 4. THEJoshuaTrotman