West Memphis 3 Freed
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 20th, 2011 4:48 am by HL
West Memphis 3 Freed
The 18-year ordeal of the so-called West Memphis Three ended Friday in an Arkansas courtroom. Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, Jr., were allowed to walk free today after the defense presented new DNA evidence that could challenge their convictions in the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys. “This was not justice,” said Baldwin. “In the beginning we told nothing but the truth. We were innocent, and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives.”