During an internship with Amicus, a charity that campaigns against the death penalty, 5 St Andrew’s Hill’s Sara Williams learned about the harsh laws in the state of Texas and the difficulties of defending ‘monsters’
The recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia has brought the death penalty back into the spotlight. For those who it most closely affects, and for the charities who campaign against it, it never went away. I am a member of such a charity. Amicus is widely known as being at the forefront of the fight against the death penalty. The aims of the charity are to assist in the provision of legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US, or any other country, and to raise awareness of potential abuses of defendants’ rights.
