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Author of 'Dead Man Walking' pushes repeal of death penalty

Thursday, February 3, 2000

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EUGENE, Ore. -- A nun who wrote a best seller on counseling death-row inmates yesterday urged college students to support a proposed ballot measure to repeal Oregon's death penalty.

"Oregon may be a beacon of hope that we can pull back this thing," Sister Helen Prejean told more than 500 people in a speech at the University of Oregon.

Prejean, whose 1993 book "Dead Man Walking" was made into a movie, is in Oregon to help raise money and volunteer support for an initiative campaign. Led by former U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, the effort would ask voters to abolish the death sentence and substitute mandatory life without parole for aggravated murder.

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