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They've set the date for Mattie's execution. 'You sure you're not from the TV?' 'No.' Mrs. Lucille Poncelet (Roberta Maxwell) is wary of outsiders. I ain't gonna kiss nobody's ass.' Sister Helen visits Poncelet's mother. He 'ain't gonna kiss ass in front of these people. She's just going to blubber her head off, but, he'll think about it. 'It's easy to kill a monster, not so easy to kill a human being.' He'd like Poncelet's mother to be at the hearing. His strategy for a pardon is to present Poncelet as a human being, not a monster. 'I'll do my best.' She contacts Hilton Barber (Robert Prosky). Sister Helen says she knows of a lawyer who might be able to help. An agitated Matthew Poncelet calls Sister Helen. 'He'll still get life, he was an accomplice,' says Luis. Sister Helen says she wouldn't want to meet this guy on the street. The reporter describes Poncelet 'smirking when the jury found him guilty.' The staff at the community center strategize to stop the execution. Clips of media coverage of the murder, Poncelet's arrest, his conviction and sentencing. Back at her apartment in the housing project Sister Helen reads Poncelet's file. She was driving seventy-five miles an hour.
Driving away from the penitentiary, Sister Helen is stopped by the police.
He's got a stack of papers, information on his case. Poncelet says he's written a motion to appeal and asks Sister Helen to help him file it. I swear I didn't.' It was the other guy, his accomplice, Carl Vitello. Sister Helen meets with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn). Do you understand?' 'Yes, Father.' Flashback to the night of the murder. They will take advantage of you any way they can. Do you know what you're getting into?' 'He wrote me and asked me to come.' 'They are all con men. Raped the girl, stabbed her several times. The chaplain provides background on the inmate: 'Matthew Poncelet shot two children in the back of the head in a lovers' lane. She is searched then interviewed by the chaplain, Father Farley (Scott Wilson). It gets real quiet here sometimes.' Death row inmates can't afford lawyers for appeals. If you can't do that, I'd take a kind word or visit. A co-worker, Luis (Ray Aranha), tells Sister Helen they've received another letter from a death-row inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) walks through the complex and enters Hope House, a Christian community outreach center.
She responds to Poncelet's letter, which leads her to visit Poncelet in jail. Thomas Projects of New Orleans and first comes into contact with Poncelet through his letters sent to her order. Through her ministries as a nun, Sister Prejean works in the poor African-American St.
Sister Helen Prejean as she visits with the convicted murderer, Matthew Poncelet, during the final week before his state-ordered execution.