About this episode
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 75 , finds the rabbis discussing how to go about executing a person who has transgressed. Sister Helen Prejean joins us to share her experiences as America’s foremost critic the death penalty, and talk about how Catholic and Jewish traditions come together—and how they differ—when it comes to thinking about sanctioned killings. What did Sister Helen feel the first time she looked a death row inmate in the eye? Listen and find out.