Free The West Memphis Three

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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. Thanks - THIS PAGE IS INDEPENDENT OF THE WM3.ORG WEBSITE AND IS INTENDED TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS! Who I'd like to meet: QUOTES: WINONA RYDER: We would like to see Damien Jason and Jessie given new trials â€“ this time based on concrete evidence, actual facts and substance â€“ instead of rumors, prejudice, superstition and what amounts to a modern day witch hunt. We would like to see a real proper investigation to determine who really did kill those three children. ----- JELLO BIAFRA: It could happen to me, it could happen to you. ----- PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: The films are remarkable, and it is certainly an interesting -- and troubling -- case. ----- TOM WAITS: These boys didnâ€™t get a fair trial. They got picked for wearing black clothes and having long hair. I am fundamentally opposed to the death penalty, and as Lenny Bruce said, In the halls of justice, all the justice is in the halls. Perhaps, a jury is composed of twelve men and women of average ignorance. and a judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician. In our system of justice, the best client for a lawyer is a scared millionaire. The worst thing in our criminal justice system is to be broke or different. ----- HENRY ROLLINS: They were incarcerated through ignorance and a blindness that is as infuriating as it is horrifying. These three men have been locked away for many years, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley got life sentences and Damien Echols is on Death Row facing lethal injection. These three are innocent and to stand for the kind of insanity that convicted them is to align oneself with all that is bad. ----- JACK BLACK: This is a really f*cked up situation. ----- EDDIE VEDDER: I went and visited Damien in this little God-forsaken place, this prison, he's on death row, and everyone was treated like dirt there. ... I was ready for that, but the oppression's really heavy. And Damien's in there. ----- EDDIE SPAGHETTI: No one is really safe from this kind of persecution. You might think that it would never happen in America, but it does. Granted there are millions of other cases that are probably worthy of our attention, but you can't go after all of them. To me, the planet itself is going to be fine. Pollution is the solution to the problem that is man. But maybe we can at least get these kids out of jail. -----