G. Jeffrey Macdonald

Women were excluded from important decision-making, Honeychurch said, even when they held high offices and had relevant skills and experience to offer. Respecting female colleagues as equals wasn’t the norm.

Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun and anti-death penalty activist whose story came to fame with the 1995 film”Dead Man Walking,” took the stand on Monday (May 11) in the penalty phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial. She said he is “genuinely sorry for what he did,” and told her how he felt about the suffering he caused to the bombing’s victims.