Author of ‘Dead Man Walking’ to speak at university

   Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" and a prominent death penalty opponent, will speak and have a book-signing at McCosh 10 on the Princeton University campus 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9.
   In 1982, Sister Prejean began visiting a death row inmate in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. She became his spiritual adviser and accompanied him to his execution. Her second book, "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions," discusses the execution of prisoners who are likely innocent of the crimes for which they were killed.
   She is the founder of the Moratorium Campaign, a group that seeks a halt to the death penalty. She also founded Survive, which provides counseling and support to the families of murder victims.
   The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion, Council of the Humanities, Dollars & Sins, Office of Religious Life, PACE Center, Princeton Justice Project, Program in African American Studies, University Center for Human Values Undergraduate Forum, and USG Projects Board; Princeton Theological Seminary’s Seminarians for Peace and Justice; New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; and Princeton Coalition Against Capital Punishment.