Sister Helen Prejean
@helenprejean · New Orleans, LA · joined 15 Mar 2008
Let's end the death penalty! I'm the author of Dead Man Walking. Read the book (graphic version out in 2025), see the movie and the opera, and take action!
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Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on Wednesday for the 2003 murders of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown in Cobb County. The case involves allegations of shocking jury misconduct.
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A group of former prison officials emphasized the trauma the death penalty can cause for corrections staff and its ineffectiveness as a deterrent of crime, calling on Gov. Laura Kelly to commute all death sentences in Kansas to life without parole: https://t.co/dYqqMSwrbj
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@helenprejean There’s been so many everywhere. States generally try to cover it up.
The death penalty needs to be abolished. Immediately and permanently.
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The question now: were any of these eight people convicted on evidence that was manipulated? Six of the eight were Black. DNA testing is underway in some cases.
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Virginia is reviewing the cases of eight men it executed between 1986 and 1998 because of serious questions about a forensic scientist who worked for the state crime lab during that period. https://t.co/eiI9IqOjBc
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Mary Jane Burton was celebrated as a hero. DNA evidence she preserved helped exonerate 13 wrongfully convicted people. Then an investigative podcast found she may have been changing test results to avoid eliminating suspects. A whistleblower had raised concerns since the 1970s.
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Do nuns ever retire? “This one doesn’t.”
Thanks to Bob Warren for a great interview and story today in NOLA! https://t.co/TQbRHpaldt
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@helenprejean State sanctioned murder. Unconscionable.
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Three executions in a single day may be a coincidence of scheduling, but it also shows where we are. There have now been 22 executions in 2026, concentrated in a handful of states, moving at an accelerated pace not seen in years.
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The Tennessee execution drew particular attention. It was the state’s first since the botched attempt to execute Tony Carruthers in May, when the execution team spent 90 minutes failing to establish an IV line before calling it off.
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Anthony Hines had pointed to that failure in seeking to stop his own execution. The state proceeded anyway — with the same doctor who performed the botched Carruthers procedure.
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Tennessee executed Anthony Darrell Hines for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jenkins. Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, age 70, for the 2003 murder of Olimpia Fisher. Alabama executed Jeremy Williams for the murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland.
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Yesterday, three states carried out executions on the same day for the first time since 2010. https://t.co/0vXbdxjrNM
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Against accounts of the same size
13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views1 709this account6 367median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.24%this account1.57%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.96%this account0.95%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 709 | 6 367 | 0.27× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.24% | 1.57% | 0.79× |
| Engagement rate | 2.96% | 0.95% | 3.12× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
8K14 Aug
940
506
286
506
1216 Aug
5.7K19 Aug
2.5K25 Aug
55.7K
1.7K
786
4.4K9 Sep
7.4K14 Sep
Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.30%14 Aug
1.60%
1.78%
2.80%
2.96%
16.67%16 Aug
7.46%19 Aug
3.10%25 Aug
2.85%
3.45%
3.82%
8.94%9 Sep
2.72%14 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.95%.
What the audience does
Likes67.3%2 099 in total
Reposts24.3%758 in total
Replies1.4%45 in total
Quotes0.8%24 in total
Bookmarks6.1%191 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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