A moving picture too stars Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry and R. Lee Ermey. A picture was directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted a story from either Sister Prejean's autobiographical account of the incident. Susan Sarandon won a Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, and a film was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sean Penn), Best Director and Best Music, Song (for Bruce Springsteen for "Dead Man Walking").

A film will require numbers of liberties sustaining a story equally presented around Prejean's book, for example consolidating ii different populatiin Prejean counseled on Dying Row, likewise when their crimes & their outdoor enthusiasts' families — & lesser details taken away to shorten a film.

Within 2002, Tim Robbins wrote the stage version of "Dead Man Walking". Instead of getting it produced professionally, around 2004 he offered the play to schools and colleges throughout the United States, particularly Jesuit schools, in a trey-month task designed to foster discourse in the demise penalty. That design, a Dead Human Walking School Theatre Plan, is managed per Demise Penalty Discourse Center, in which Sister Prejean nowadays bases her function.