2024-07-08
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Three years after the Taliban swept to power, as many as 8 out of 10 female journalists in Afghanistan are no longer in their jobs.
But some have resisted.
What is the life of female journalists like now?
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It was the first time I had ever addressed an envelope on a letter that gave us the address Death Row.
And I wrote him a letter.
We don't know each other yet, but I'd love to be a pen pal and write letters to you.
I can't send you money, but I can be your friend.
When Sister Helen Prejean agreed to correspond with a convicted murderer on death row in Louisiana, she didn't know what she was letting herself in for.
And right away, boy, the letter came back.
Well, I'm a Catholic and you're a nun.
Would you be my spiritual advisor?
And I said yes.
I fill out the form.
Spiritual advisor.
What she witnessed behind some of the most heavily guarded doors in the United States turned her life upside down.
I had no idea.
By filling out that form in about two years time, he's going to be electrocuted to death.