Dead Man Walking: Graphic Edition | Catholic Discussion Guide
Through a series of thoughtful reflection questions, this discussion guide serves as an accompaniment to Dead Man Walking: Graphic Edition, offering readers a way to explore the Catholic call to uphold the sanctity of life and to examine the inadequacies of the U.S. criminal legal system.
Since its landmark 1993 release, Sr. Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking has been adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, an opera, a stage play, and now a graphic novel. Dead Man Walking tells the true story of Sr. Helen Prejean, whose work ministering to Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie as they were scheduled to be executed animated her to become the Catholic Church’s most outspoken advocate for death penalty abolition. This new Graphic Edition engages readers of all ages to examine what true justice and mercy look like, and the need to abolish the death penalty in the United States.
You will want to use this reading companion to enhance your own experience of the novel, or to open up the conversation with your ministry, community, school, or parish.
