Robert Willie, the death-row prisoner in Dead Man Walking, was convicted of raping a woman who tells her story here.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of

The chief investigator who discovered the body gives his eyewitness account of the criminal investigation and trial resulting from the 1980 abduction, rape, and

A vivid eyewitness account of the investigation into the murder of Faith Hathaway by Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro.

Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Del