Dead Man Walking

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eventually
finds a good soul in Matthew Poncelet, a person no one else knows.
Matthew constantly denies to Sister Helen, himself, and to God that he had
committed his horrible crime. Poncelet continues to blame his problems on
other things such as his father dying early in his life, his drug use, his
immaturity, and that he was unable to stand up to his partner in the brutal
crime. Sister Helen urges Poncelet to come clean and face the part that he
took in the crime. And at nearly the last minutes of the film he tells the
truth. Though he tells the truth of his sin, he is still put to death by lethal
injection.
The purpose of this film, I believe, was to show that capital punishment
is not right in all circumstances, but the redemption and preservation of the
human soul being better. Tim Robbins tried to show how most people and
even more accurate, Christian people tend to always want vengeance for a
crime. Most of them have a line from the old ...

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