Noted abolitionist, Sister Helen Prejean, recently spoke to a group of hundreds of students at the Noble and Greenough school in Massachusetts. Sister Helen's death penalty story became famous through the Sean Penn/Susan Sarandon told story "Dead Man Walking." Sister Helen is a gift to the movement and to many inmates. During her most recent speech she stated: "We've got to ask ourselves, 'If I believe (death row inmates) ought to die, could I do it?'" That's a pretty good question for death penalty supporters. Perhaps it is a more important question for those who "believe" the death penalty is an appropriate punishment but find the system flawed then it is for the hard core death penalty proponents. Could you push the button that starts the poison flowing? No? Then why is it right that someone else does?

Sister fights death penalty