Elmo Patrick "Pat" Sonnier (February 21, 1950 – April 5, 1984) was a convicted American murderer and rapist who was executed by electrocution at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Louisiana on April 5, 1984. Sonnier was sentenced to death and his younger brother Eddie to life on April 25, 1978 for the November 5, 1977 rape and murder of Loretta Ann Bourque, 18, and the murder of David LeBlanc, 17. Sonnier's presence on Louisiana's death row came to the attention of Sister Helen Prejean when she was asked to write to death row inmates as part of her Order's community outreach program.
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21 February 1950 Louisiana
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5 April 1984 (aged 34)
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