Sister Helen Prejean

Yo. Today I'm gonna blog about a nun (is she a nun? Are Sisters nuns? Probably.)
She is pretty bwas.
I first found out about her during the last few lessons before school broke up for summer last year. We got to watch a film called 'Dead Man Walking', which was about capital punishment. It was about a man who had been convicted for the murder and rape of a young woman, and the murder of her boyfriend. Until half-way through the film he claims he didn't do it. Then he admits the truth.
He's the bad guy, right?
Kind of. He's a Bad Guy, but not The Bad Guy, depending on your view of things. The film was about how he enlisted the help of Sister Helen Prejean to... I dunno, clear his soul or something? Her job was to help him 'die with dignity', to help him admit his crimes and accept what he did and accept the punishment -death.
Through this film, you see the horror of having to kill someone for a murder. You meet the victim's parents, who want retribution and rightly so, and then you meet the criminal's family and...
I dunno. It's hard to say what one feels when watching that film.
Well anyhoo, the film 'Dead Man Walking' is based on the book 'Dead Man Walking' which was written by the real Helen Prejean. And she wrote the book from first hand experience, because it was her job to care for the souls of those who had no friends, for those who had done the unspeakable. They are the scum of the Earth, but it is said by most Christians that we have a forgiving God, and we should be more forgiving.
As mortals, we cannot forgive a rape and a murder. Those things are sick- mostly the rape. Unspeakably disgusting. But should we kill people for it? In my opinion there is no 'humane' way to carry out capital punishment. You know how the lethal injection is supposed the be the best way to do it? There are three stages to that injection: first they paralyze you. You cannot move, but you can still feel things. Then they destroy your insides; lungs fall in, muscles loosely let one's bowl contents fall out, your organs dissolve. You are still awake at this point. Then they finally stop your heart.
Other than the slightest twitch of the face, the viewer can not tell how much pain you are in. As GLaDOS from the Portal games says:
"You don't feel pain, or at least you cannot COMMUNICATE that you feel pain. I consider that a failing, by the way."
They can't show you how much pain they are in.
Yes, they probably deserve it.
But do we have the right to do that to another human being?
Well anyhoo, in R.E these past few days we have returned to the topic of capital punishment, and we watched a documentary about it. At some point we also saw an interview with Sister Helen Prejean but I am terrible at finding videos on youtube, so here is a random interview with her. The one we saw was quite humourus, as she did impressions of people who directly quoted the Bible to defend capital punishment. People trying to out-quote a nun? Ha!
As was said in the film and, according to the documentary,  real life; "Killing is wrong, it doesn't matter who does it, if it is me or your government."

Dark Dragon