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The West Memphis Three are a group of Teenagers convicted of murdering 3 8 year olds in 1993 in the woods of West Memphis Arkansas. The teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were imprisoned after Misskelley (who has an IQ of 72) was questioned for 12 hours and allegedly to the police admitted to watching Echols and Baldwin molest and murder the second graders. The police investigated and took the boys into custody and said they found their murderers. What was Their Evidence? Echols owned a knife, and both of them liked Metallica, had interests in the occult, and Stephen King novels. Being this was the only evidence they had and West Memphis being a conservative Christian town, the WM3 were not given any sympathy at all and were branded by their small town “Devil Worshippers.” The jury found them all guilty.

Echols was sentenced to death.
Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life.

No real evidence since has connected the WM3 to the victims. In Recent years more evidence found has if anything has further proved the boys innocence from involvement in the murders at all.

The WM3 have since become a legendary case of unfairness and biases’ in the American court system and America in general for persecuting 3 young men out of them not being the normal “Good Old Boys” like the rest of their town and State in general.

Many different celebrities ranging from country group The Dixie Chicks to (the band Echols and Baldwin loved to listen to) Metallica to comedic actor Will Ferrell in some way have shown support for the Three’s retrial. And even the victims Parents know that they had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes.

The Most Recent information about the WM3:

“In July, 2008, it was revealed that Kent Arnold, the jury foreman on the Echols / Baldwin trial, had discussed the case with an attorney prior to the beginning of deliberations and advocated for the guilt of the West Memphis Three as a result of the inadmissible Jessie Misskelley statements. The resulting juror misconduct claim is expected to result in a reversal of the convictions by 2009. Legal experts have agreed that this issue has the strong potential to result in the reversal of the convictions of Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols.

If their convictions are reversed, the State is expected to retry them.” - Wikipedia

As the Three’s requests for Retrials continue to be denied Echols still remains on Death Row while Baldwin and Misskelley are relying on the next request after another for something had absolutely no involvement in.

for more information on the West Memphis 3 visit: http://www.wm3.org

add their official MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/wm3org
or rent the Emmy Award Winning Documentary Film: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Being I am the same age that the WM3 were when they were convicted it scares the living shit out of me. Knowing that if a murder where to happen in my town of bible thumping loggers I would get fingers pointed at me for having long hair, hating my town, not being one of the local church goers, or the music I listen to. To think of being in death row like Echols has been for the last 14 years for simply not conforming to the rest of his town or thinking on his own I am to put it simply, terrified. Thinking of the fact the same thing could happen to me any day out of nowhere for thinking outside the box. I thought this was the land of the free and home of the brave. But that doesn’t apply anymore apparently. 3 men are rotting in prison raped of their freedom because of the American court system gave power in the hands who didn’t like the 3 teenagers because of personal beliefs. Of that is what this country has become than let me off. I want out.

Heroin Kyle