Dead Man Walking News

From a certain vantage point, it's hard not to suspect that stage veterans Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen have been living parallel lives - a suspicion that only gained credence when, at this year's Obies ceremony, Meryl Streep presented them with the award for lifetime achievement, the first time it has ever been shared.

For two decades, Sister Helen Prejean has traveled around the world, speaking against capital punishment.

The acclaimed series "Oprah's Master Class' featuring an unprecedented first-person insight into the brilliant minds of entertainers we love, respect and admire, returns with all-new episodes Sunday, June 2 on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Madison Opera has announced its offerings for the 2013-14 season, an interesting mix of the familiar and the novel, the old and the new.

Sister Helen Prejean, a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, will speak at 7 p.m. May 17 at Church of the Resurrection, 32001 Cannon Road, Solon.

For two decades, Sister Helen Prejean has traveled around the country and the world, speaking out against capital punishment.

Sister Helen Prejean, right turns the tables on the award's presenter Loretta Holstein, the wife of the award's namesake as the plaque is presented during a reception in Prejean's honor at Cafe Reconcile in New Orleans, Tuesday May 7, 2013.

By Christopher M. Riggs Sister Helen Prejean has witnessed six executions, two of which she is convinced were carried out on innocent men - and she hopes she has seen her last.

Author and anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, whose bond with a condemned man inspired the Oscar winning film Dead Man Walking, will speak in San Francisco May 9 in a free, community event presented by the San Francisco Public Defender's office.

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An emotional opera about a condemned killer and the parents of the teens he murdered may spark discussions about the death penalty and society's thirst for revenge.

To film the low-budget thriller, she endured six weeks of a frigid southern Ontario winter in and around Hamilton.