John and Bayard Cobb Peace Lecture

The second annual Cobb Peace Lecture: “Dead Man Walking—The Journey Continues” delivered by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ

Monday, April 20, 2009, 7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus Events Center
6287 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, Colorado

Since 1984, Sister Helen has divided her time between educating citizens about the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, which was released by Random House in December 2004.

Sister Helen Prejean has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic church's newly vigorous opposition to state executions. She is a regular interviewee and contributor to national and international publications, and has become a recurring presence on major TV news shows. Sister Helen lives in New Orleans and works with the Death Penalty Discourse Center, the Moratorium Campaign and the Dead Man Walking Play Project.