1. Dead Man Walking
... , and thus see that any conviction is lawful and rightfully just. She soon finds that this is not necessarily the case. While pleading for Pat's life she meets Governor Edwin Edwards, who believes, the law speaks for its self: if it is the law, it must be right, it must be true, and thus does not feel personally responsible for his ... job within the law. In an act of, which Prejean believed was, moral consciousness Governor Edwards transferred the responsibility of signing death warrants over to the sentencing judge, and continued to try hard to put as much distance between the governor...
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