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Dead Man Walking author to speak at USC

Sister Helen Prejean, whose 1993 book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S., was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, will speak at USC's Law School Auditorium Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.

The lecture is sponsored in part by the USC Newman Club and the USC Criminal Law Society and is open to the public.

Prejean, an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, heads the Moratorium Campaign, a group gathering signatures for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty. She is working on another book, to be titled "Innocence Betrayed," that deals with three possibly innocent men who have been sentenced to death.

Other sponsors of Prejean's lecture include the Cornell Death Penalty Project, the S.C. Christian Action Council and the S.C. Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

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