Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

In it Helen Prejean tells the story of two men Dobie Gillis Williams and Joseph O'Dell whom Helen Prejean accompanied to their executions. At the same time Helen Prejean also founded Survive an organization devoted to counseling the families of victims of violence. "
Prejean now bases her work at the Death Penalty Discourse Network in New Orleans and spends her time giving talks across the United States and around the world.

Joseph who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. S. J.