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Description: Ongoing updates on the court case in which a teenager was convicted of a murder due to his pagan reading habits and a penchant for heavy metal.
Exonerate the WM3 Official Blog Official Blog of Exonerate the WM3 Support Group - WM3.org The WM3 Freedom Fund has been dismantled two years after Damien, Jason and Jessie were released from prison. (They had to take an Alford plea but were
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| Page title: | Exonerate the WM3 Official Blog |
| Keywords: | west memphis three, wm3, DNA testing, injustice, satanic panic, damien echols, jessie misskelley, jason baldwin, lorri davis, eddie vedder |
| Description: | Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence? The same police officers coerced an error-filled "confession" from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994. Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40. In the years since the convictions of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley for a crime they did not commit, their cause has gained support from all over the world, and these men have become known as the West Memphis Three. The story of the injustice they have endured at the hands of the state of Arkansas has never lost momentum, and in recent months, the evidence in their favor has grown to the point where it's nearly impossible to view this case as anything other than a miscarriage of justice. |
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