Deadman walking

This is a movie about a man named Matthew Poncelet who is on death row for the murder of a teenage boy, Walter, and the rape and murder of a teenage girl, Hope. He has been on death row for six years and has kept in touch with Sister Helen for most of those. Towards the last couple of weeks before his death he has asked her to come and meet him. She did and …

…She thought that there should be grace and forgiveness of people, like the New Testament says. Which argues against "eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth" from the Old Testament. Christ did come so that we may live a life that sets us free from bondage but Christ did not come to set the example to live anyway one pleases. The forgiving and forgetting part is on the victims family not the law.