Sister Helen Prejean on Trump's Move to Bring Back Firing Squads & Expand Executions (Part 2)

Amy Goodman· Host0:00

[upbeat music] This is Democracy Now, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. As we bring you part two of our conversation with Sister Helen Prejean. Death by firing squad. In its efforts to ramp up and expedite federal executions, the Justice Department announced Friday it allowed firing squads, electrocution, gas asphyxiation to its arsenal of methods to execute federal prisoners on death row. We're continuing our conversation with Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world's most well-known anti-death penalty activists, perhaps second only to Pope Leo when it comes to, uh, well-known opposition to the death penalty. Sister Helen Prejean is the author of the best-selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty, which was just published in a graphic edition by Random House. As we continue this conversation, Sister Helen Prejean, I wanted to ask you about the conference you're at at DePaul in Chicago. I mean, Chicago is where Pope Leo is from. Um, the message that you played of Pope Leo opposing the death penalty came out almost concurrent with, uh, the Trump administration announcement expanding the methods