was not, in my opinion, a single piece of credible evidence in the death case of this man s guilt. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley, now known as the west memphis three, have all found supporters from all over the world, including celebrities like actor johnny depp and rock musician eddie vedder. do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that don t even make me blink anymore. and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing of a hair found at the crime scene. and that has led to some startling revelations. the dna evidence proves that there were no sexual assaults. the forensics produced that, as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it.
jessie s confession was played for the jury at his trial. they heard jessie misskelley say, i saw damien and jason do this and when that one boy escaped i caught him and held him. on february 4th, 1994, jessie misskelley was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. damien s and jason s trial was next but the case against them was much weaker. now, going into the trial of damien and jason, they don t have a confession. they don t have any information, a witness, anybody who says that these boys even knew the victims. six months after the child murders in west memphis, arkansas, prosecutors had little evidence against jason and damien. they had jessie s confession but he wouldn t testify against the other two. they did, however, get a big break right here in this lake behind jason baldwin s home.
reluctant to get involved in a death penalty case. prosecutors generally will not pursue the death penalty unless they feel the evidence of guilt is overwhelming, and i was stunned to find out that there was not, in my opinion, a single piece of credible evidence in a death case of this man s guilt. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley, now known as the west memphis three, have all found supporters from all over the world, including celebrities, like actor johnny depp and rock musician eddie vedder. do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that don t even make me blink anymore. and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars for dna testing of a hair found at the crime scene. and that has led to some startling revelations.
everybody started saying, that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. three teens, convicted. guilty of capital murder. their accused ringleader sent to death row. i m in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. he deserves to be tortured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three 8-year-old children. but did the west memphis three really do it? nearly 20 years after the most infamous child murders in
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