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--"Life After Death" is destined to be a classic of explosive, riveting prison literature.[...]
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. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin a[...]
From one of the greatest legal injustices of our time sprang one of the most unlikely--and unforgettable--love stories. Damien Echols was just eighteen years old when he was condemned to death for a crime he didn't commit. His case--that of the infamous "West Memphis Three"--gained notoriety after a[...]
"Yours for Eternity "is an intimate look at the extraordinary love story between Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, who met and married while Echols--author of the "New York Times "bestseller "Life After""Death"--served nearly eighteen years on death row.[...]
'A brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.' --John Grisham In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memph[...]
An instant New York Times bestseller, Life After Death is an agonizing first-hand account of an innocent man living on Death Row. 'A brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.' John [...]
Som 19-åring dömdes Damien Echols till döden för sadistiska sexmord på tre åttaåriga pojkar. Han och vännerna Jason Baldwin och Jessie Misskelley Jr blev West Memphis Three: fattiga ungdomar som utpekades som satanistiska ritualmördare, trots bristande bevis. Efter en lång kampanj släppte[...]
"Jag var så rädd att du inte skulle få mina brev. Jag vet att det här är på riktigt - inget i mitt liv har känts lika verkligt." Lorri Davis i maj 1996
"Lorri, du måste hela tiden föreställa dig att jag är där ute. Jag klarar inte av det längre, så du måste.
Jag minns [...]