'Law & Order: SVU' Is Still Getting Flak For This Character Death
By TheBlast Staff on February 9, 2020 at 11:18 AM PST
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is known for having characters that repeatedly come back on the show, that are not frontrunners or main characters on the show. And one character death in particular, has fans upset. It's not often that fans get upset about the way a character was killed off (or perhaps it is...) but this is one of those times.
Sister Peg on Law & Order: SVU was a longtime recurring character, portrayed by actress Charlayne Woodard. She appeared in several episodes of the show, beginning in the third season through to the twelfth season.
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Sister Peg is a nun that took in prostitutes and victims of sexual assault. Because of this, she frequently worked with the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, like Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Stabler (Christopher Meloni), and more.
In the season twelve finale, Sister Peg is killed when the daughter of a deceased victim carries a gun into the police station and starts shooting. The episode is notable because it is the last one to-date for Meloni, because Stabler felt that he could have done something about the shooting.