Damien

  • ‘I Had The Best Cell On Death Row’: Life In The Shadow Of Execution

    ‘I Had The Best Cell On Death Row’: Life In The Shadow Of Execution

    In 1994, Damien Echols and two of his friends, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were wrongfully convicted in what prosecutors called a satanic ritual murder of three 8-year-old boys. Echols, the leader of the group, was sentenced to death; Baldwin and Misskelley received life sentences. The trio became known as the West Memphis Three, and…