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Through a volunteer program organized by the REPRIEVE Foundation, which provides pro bono legal services to prisoners awaiting the death penalty, ESADE Law School students have the opportunity to work in defense of inmates in Houston, Texas, USA.
Volunteers to this program spend three months in Houston assisting REPRIEVE lawyers in researching and gathering the necessary documents for the defense of their clients. The United States, together with Japan, is the only democratic country to still apply the death penalty; and the state of Texas has the highest number of executed criminals in the United States.
REPRIEVE, which has offices in Great Britain and Australia, chose ESADE in 2003 to bring their program to Spain. This decision was due to the high percentage of non-English speaking Latin Americans sentenced to death in Texas, and the belief that bilingual professionals are necessary in order to understand both the environment of the accused as well as the United States legal system.
The students chosen to participate in this program spend a minimum of three months in Houston, after completing a week-long training course in American Penal Law in New Orleans.
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