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May 21, 2015 · In short, the West Memphis Three are Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. They were three boys from West Memphis, Arkansas, aged between 16 and 18, who in 1993 were arrested...
- Daniel Dylan Wray
Mar 12, 2024 · This was Damien Echols’ life for 18 years as he sat on death row in the Varner Supermax Unit in Arkansas. Echols, alongside his friends Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were convicted of murdering three children in 1993. The trio was collectively dubbed the West Memphis Three.
There's a sense of solidarity on death row that you don't have anywhere else in the prison just because you have a common enemy. You don't have time to fight amongst yourselves when you're fighting against the people who are trying to put you to death.
Sep 25, 2012 · Damien Echols was 18 when he and two other teens were convicted of the gruesome murder of three boys and sent away to prison. In Echols' case, to death row.
Mar 26, 2017 · Next month the state of Arkansas will execute eight of its 33 inmates, in pairs over four evenings and by lethal injection. For more than 18 years Damien Echols was one of those on death row. He knows all eight men and says Don W. Davis, scheduled to die April 17, "kept me alive."
- Ann Kenda
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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This photo provided by Justice 360 shows death row inmate Richard Moore at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, S.C., Aug. 17, 2018. (Justice 360 via AP)[ASSOCIATED PRESS]
