the ktc death-penalty project sends
bay-area students to the south each
summer to work in under-resourced
capital defense offices the south is the
region of the country that is the most
active death-penalty reach in the place
where more executions take place than
anywhere else my time in Arkansas was
really amazing we got there I guess at
the end of May and there was an
execution scheduled for the first week
of June
we kind of got thrown into it from the
very beginning I'm happy that we did
because if you really got to see like
what this really feels like we worked on
a case in Oxford Mississippi our job was
to reinvestigate that murder we
re-interviewed all the old witnesses in
that case we presented a narrative we
basically became detectives you're going
to offices where they really need you
they need your help working in the deep
south there is no place where you are
more needed every summer we would sort
of mark time until our interns got there
the offices we work with value our
students because we provide training for
our students before they leave
California and we provide support for
them while they are in the South the San
Francisco students arrived having had a
course having had a background they
understood the importance and the kind
of work that gets you mitigation and
mitigating evidence that can be so
critically important because of that I
think we were given a lot of experiences
that I wouldn't have gotten anywhere
else many of the students have said this
was a life-changing experience this
taught me about the criminal justice
system in a way that no other program
could have if this is something that you
think you might want to do then
absolutely do KTC do the death penalty
project if you're interested in doing
capital work you should come to USF and
do the KDC program it made me want to do
what I'm
you