Amanda Knox

And I think it's important

Like you say, people that come from small towns, I grew up in a place where in the school system, guidance counselors, it leads you to believe that you can do any and everything.

In these small towns across the country, they don't tell particularly us.

Yeah.

It's important, I think, for people to see that you can, especially if you're like that kid, that young girl that's on a dirt road, that's, you know, living in these small towns, you're not in a big city, you don't have access to some of the programs and some of the activities and you don't have that.

to see that like, yes, you can come from a small town, you can do, you can go anywhere, you can travel, you can be anything that you want.

And I just think it's really important for me to be a representation of that.

Well, you are an outstanding representation of that.

You said before that advocacy isn't a career choice, it's a responsibility.

When did that responsibility show itself to you in a way that you couldn't ignore anymore?

I think it probably was in my high school days for me.

I became very interested in learning about the death penalty.

So also, Johnsonville, South Carolina is also home to this very infamous multiple murderer, Donald Pee Wee Gaskins.

So my small town...

had this man who had committed a lot of murders and was on death row.

When I was in seventh grade, he had come up for execution.

And I'll never forget, my seventh grade teacher asked us to argue in class our position.

Now, this was the girl who did the power Easter speeches.

So I was ready.

And I was like, Dr. Pee Wee Gaskins should be executed.