Free the West Memphis Three

[Rosking]

FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE



For more info check out www.wm3.org

In May 1993 three 8 year old children, Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore were found murdered in a creek in a wooded area known as Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis Arkansas.

Within a month the West Memphis police department announced that it had caught the killers, 17 year old Jessie Misskelley, 16 year old Jason Baldwin, and 18 year old Damien Echols.

According to the police the 3 children were murdered in a satanic ritual. Their evidence was an error filled confession by Misskelley, who is mentally handicapped with an IQ of 72. Misskelley was subjected to 12 hours of interrogation without parental consent or legal counsel, and only 46 minutes of those 12 hours were audio taped. Misskelley recanted his story that night but it was too late.

Even though there was no physical evidence at all, no murder weapon, no motive and no connection between the victims and the accused, the three teenagers were convicted in 1994 for the murders.

The prosecutions evidence was black hair, black t-shirts, Metallica cds and Stephen King novels.

Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were sentenced to life without parole while Damien Echols was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

They have been in prison for over 11 years for a crime they did not commit.

Time is running out for Damien Echols, but there is still hope.

To find out how you can help please visit www.wm3.org

Also check out the 2 award winning documentaries about the case: "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" and the book "Devils Knot" by Mara Leveritt.

Learn more, give to the defense fund and tell everyone you know. Help save an innocent mans life.

Please spread the word,Thanks

[dauodwa]

Interesting. To many simualer cases to care though.