![The Valpo Core Reader](../../assets/md5images/0e306e591459a069ed31ea2431769b7f.gif)
Document Type
Loss and Death Essay
Publication Date
2001
Excerpt
Being a sister of the faith, I wouldn't normally be connected to convicted felons. People would picture me with the innocent and disadvantaged. For the most part, they were right. That's until I received a letter from a man named Matthew Poncelet. He was writing from death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He wrote partly for company, and mostly to plead his case of innocence. Being a nun and a compassionate person, I wrote him back; and soon after that I went to see him.
Recommended Citation
Persick, Chris, "I Was With Him When He Died (2001)" (2001). The Valpo Core Reader. 147.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/147