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Damien Echols

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December 11, 1974

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Damien Wayne Echols, along with Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, is one of the three men, known as the West Memphis Three, who were convicted in the killing of three eight-year-old boys Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore at Robin Hood Hills, West Memphis, Arkansas, on May 5, 1993.

Damien Echols was convicted of murder by a jury and sentenced to death by lethal injection. He was on death row under 23 hours per day lockdown at the Varner Supermax. On August 19, 2011, Echols, along with the two others collectively known at the West Memphis Three, were released from prison after their attorneys and the judge handling the upcoming retrial agreed to a deal. Under the terms of the Alford guilty plea, Echols and his co-defendents...more

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Average rating: 4.30 · 195 ratings · 25 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Almost Home: My Life Story 4.29 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Life After Death 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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“Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else’s insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down. ”
― Damien Echols

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