Life After Death is destined to be a riveting, explosive classic of prison literature. Damien Echols talks life after death row & destroyed evidence in West Memphis Three case THV11 53.5K subscribers Subscribe 54K views 1 year ago Damien Echols spoke on the 10 year. In these pages, Echols reveals himself a brilliant writer, infusing his narrative with tragedy and irony in equal measure: he describes the terrors he experienced every day and his outrage toward the American justice system, and offers a firsthand account of living on Death Row in heartbreaking, agonizing detail. Then in August 2011 the WMT were released. Now Echols shares his story in full-from abuse by prison guards and wardens, to portraits of fellow inmates and deplorable living conditions, to the incredible reserves of patience, spirituality, and perseverance that kept him alive and sane while incarcerated for nearly two decades. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with thousands of supporters and many notable celebrities who called for a new trial. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the 'ringleader,' was sentenced to death. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.-who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three-were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas.

In 1993 three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessi. The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row. Read 1,029 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

Life After Death by Damien Echols