A scene from Dead Man Walking 1995
Prison guard

Tell me something sister, what is a nun doing in a place like this? Shouldn't you be teaching children? Didn't you know what this man has done? How he killed them kids?

Sister Helen Prejean

What he was involved with was evil. I don't condone it. I just don't see the sense of killing people to say that killing people's wrong.

Prison guard

You know what the Bible say, 'An eye for an eye'.

Sister Helen Prejean

You know what else the Bible ask for death as a punishment? For adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred grounds, profane in a sabbath and contempt to parents.

Prison guard

I ain't gonna get no Bible quote from no nun cause I'm gonna lose.

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