"I found it staggering to realise that the vital work I have been doing here in the office could help to save a life across the pond."

Originally published in the Huffington Post , here Sam considers his time in Texas.

A message from Dana Cook, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation (ACCR)

"But then I discovered the open road..."

"After having often been told in England that I need to be less emotionally involved in or attached to the work I do, it has been a pleasure to work in an environment where loving and caring for clients is something to be celebrated and where caring for the prisoners’ overall well-being is prioritised alongside the processing of their legal claims."

"I was nervous about meeting my first client, but as we starting talking I quickly became comfortable. I met a guy who was my age and was excited to meet someone from the UK."

"For anyone interested in criminal law, who would turn down an opportunity to be involved in the most serious cases in a place that inflicts death on those it finds guilty?"

"You come away with not only legal skills and increased human rights knowledge, but also friends and life skills."

"The last word should go to the victim's mother who said: "I was glad he didn't get the death penalty. It wasn't one of the things I wanted. Two wrongs don't make a right.""

"I wasn’t completely set on studying law at all until about a month into my internship. Being exposed to what Amicus does for so many people across the Atlantic further fuelled my desire to study law as a means to help less fortunate people."

"Now that I am in Paris, I have noticed that everything I have learned throughout the past three months is following me everywhere. It has changed the way I see things."

A quick update from Sam, who is enjoying his internship at one Amicus' newest affiliate offices.

Guy looks back at his stint in the Amicus office, somehow neglecting to mention the number of cakes he got through.

Tweet us @Amicus_ALJ if you (like Sarah) know the reason for a sentence of 999 years, 12 months and 365 days...

"Perhaps it was because he was such a nice and ‘normal’ man, or maybe I would have had this reaction regardless of the person I had met, but as soon as I walked out of the prison I started crying."

When Sam met the stranger he'd been studying in detail for two months...

Anastasia ponders death penalty statistics and picks her favourite related quote. Her top one is by Gandhi, followed closely by her second favourite: 'Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?' by Holly Near.

Sooyun describes his three-month internship in the Amicus office, with notable reference to cake.

As the best Amicus student rep 2015-16, Alice was offered the opportunity to come into the London office to meet the team - and whilst she was here, we roped her into helping us out! Here she summarises her time working with Amicus over the last year.

"In the Texas Prison Museum they have a prison cell. You can go to the front desk to get a striped jumpsuit and take pictures in this prison cell while you wear the jumpsuit. Next to this prison cell is the electric chair that was used for decades to execute people. I was shocked by the juxtaposition - this prison cell effectively making fun of prisoners and just a couple meters away a tool used to horrifically execute people."