Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Dead Man Walking? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Susan Jacoby
wrote Reflections on the Guillotine.
wrote a book about the history of revenge.
was the governor of Louisiana before Edwin Edwards.
was the stepmother of one of Willie's victims.
Q. The Heel-String Gang was
the name given to Pat and Eddie after they committed their murders.
a group who protested conditions in Angola by cutting their Achilles tendons.
an early hip-hop group with the hit "Achilles's Last Stand."
a branch of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Q. George Will is
a liberal political commenter who argued for televising executions.
a conservative political commenter who argued in favor of the death penalty.
a balding rat who becomes friends with Robert Lee Willie.
the director of Dead Man Walking.
Q. "Do not be afraid… I have called you by your name, you are mine." That's a passage from Isaiah that
Prejean reads to Pat as he walks to his death.
is read on a game show popular with nuns.
Robert Lee Willie wrote in a letter to Prejean.
Lloyd LeBlanc recites to Prejean at the end of the novel.
Q. Gregg v. Georgia is a Supreme Court case that
denied Pat Sonnier's appeal.
declared it constitutional for states to institute capital punishment.
outlawed capital punishment.
prevented Sean Penn from ever acting again.