Sister Prejean decries federal execution on Human Rights Day
The sun sets on the Federal Corrections Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., May 22, 2019, where death-row inmate Brandon Bernard, who was 18 when he took part in a 1999 double murder in Texas, died by lethal injection Dec. 10 despite eleventh-hour attempts for court intervention. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)
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Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, who has worked in prison ministry and against the death penalty for decades, is seen in this 2016 file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
WASHINGTON — Calling the Dec. 10 federal execution of Brandon Bernard an injustice carried out by the country's criminal justice system, Sister Helen Prejean urged Americans to speak up to stop a series of upcoming executions in the final weeks of the Trump administration.