Damien Echols Essays

Imagine, suddenly being put on trial and locked away for 18 years and 78 days for a crime you did not commit. This is exactly what happened to Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin when they were convicted for the murder of three young boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steve Branch. When the bodies of the boys were discovered immense pressure was put on the police and they needed to act quickly. The teens were the obvious and safest choice as they were seen by the community

Damien Echols Argumentative Essay Being punished for a crime you didn’t commit, but constantly getting finger-pointed by others because of what they read on the news is wrong! When someone goes through such a hard time their only thing they want to do is go back to normal life as it was before. For those always being judgemental and just only seeing it as “Oh you went to jail, or you stole this, you said that.” One simple action is just going to define a person? Their is a boy named Damien Echols

devil worshipers. Damien Echols, seventeen at the time, was one of the first individuals to get interviewed due to his “goth” looks, mental illness, and troubled home.

5th 1993, the bodies of three 8year old boys, Michael Moore, Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were found murdered in an area known as Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. The investigation to these murders had seen three teenage boys, Damien Echols, 18, Jason Baldwin, 16 and Jessie Misskelley, 17, charged, found guilty of these murders and released from jail under an Alford plea in 2011. Firstly, some of the key elements of the investigation will be discussed, such as Jessie Misskelley’s

during Misskelley's interrogation. In the prosecution trial of best friends Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, the two suspects had about four evidence/testimonies against them. The first is the fiber evidence. Two pieces of fiber were found at the scene of the crime. The first was a red rider that could have come from Baldwin's mother robe, and the second piece of fiber is a green fiber that could have come from Echols sisters shirt. Both of theses fibers are considered secondary transfer

a documentary about the West Memphis three, a brutal killing of three West Memphis boys. This court case shows many flaws from the bias to the actual evidence the prosecution shows. In May of 1993, three West Memphis teenagers were arrested. Damien Echols, Jesse Miskelley, and Jason Baldwin had been arrested on the charged with the murder of three West Memphis boys Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, that were found in a creek in the middle of the woods brutally murdered, mutilated

Damien Echols was a 17 year old dropout at the time of the crime. He had been previously hospitalized because of his psychiatric problems and attempted to drink his own blood in hospital. He WAS put on suicide watch during his time in the hospital as well as claiming he was going to be the next Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. Although he was a suspect, the only thing tying Echols to the case was the blue wax on the boys shirts and the polyester

out cast and were accused of worshipping the Devil. The three teenage boys convicted were Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin. Jessie was a highschool dropout, a delinquent, and a social outcast. He had a reported IQ of 72 (borderline deficiency in intelligence) making him an easy target for interrogation, there was no relations between Jessie and the two others. Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin were best friends, the two being opposites, Jason had a future in

people accused in the West Memphis Three case were Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin. These boys didn’t have a sufficient amount of evidence to be charged guilty. A few reasons they were considered guilty is because, Jessie Misskelley did confess several times witnessing these children being killed. Jesse Misskelley also had mentioned he has partaken in satanic worships. Guilty evidence against Damian Echols consists of girls saying that he has killed the boys, and that he wrote

The suspects were 16 year old Jason Baldwin, 17 year old Jessie Misskelley Jr., and reported ring leader Damien Echols. Baldwin and Echols were close friends, but were merely acquaintances with Misskelley. Echols was known to suffer from serious mental illness and Misskelley has a poor IQ. All three boys came from fairly disadvantaged families. Prior to that the book opens up with stating another possible suspect

killed and tied up in the stream in the woods. Three boys were charged with the murder of the three little boys. Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin were sitting at Damien’s house when the cops came and apprehended them. Jessie Misskelley was picked up at school. Most people are still trying to figure out if the three boys are guilty or innocent. One will learn about Jessie’s trial vs. Damien and Jason’s trial. The only reason they were convicted with murdering the three 8 year old boys was due to their

no one questioned it because they were seen as fitting the description of a criminal based upon outside appearances. There were three young boys that were found murdered in a ditch. There had been no physical evidence to link Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelley with the crime. However, they were convicted after Jessie Misskelley was questioned and had then went on to admit to supposedly committing

The West Memphis Three are three young men, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Jason Baldwin, who were tried and convicted as teenagers for a triple homicide that they did not commit. Both Misskelley and Baldwin were sentenced to life imprisonment, Misskelley with two additional 20-year sentences, while Echols was to receive the death penalty. Many believe that the trial was, for lack of a better term, a “witch hunt”, due to the fact that there was very little and horribly careless sincere

having a temper and engaging in fights, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were previously arrested for vandalism and shoplifting, trialed and convicted of capital murder, though there was a lack of physical evidence, weapon and motive, are currently referred

article, “3 Teen-Agers Accused in the Killings of 3 Boys”, there is a great deal of bias by word choice. B. Quote (C): “ Chris Floyd, a 16-year-old from Marion High School, said Mr. Baldwin kept to himself at school, hanging out other times with Mr. Echols and Mr. Misskelley, who were both high school dropouts.” C. Explain (E) This publisher assumes that these kids are as horrible as everyone else made them out to be, because 2 of the 3 kids who were accused of murder, so happened to be dropouts

The West Memphis Three was a trail convicting three teenagers: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley of killing three little boys; Michael Moore, Stevie Branch, and Chris Byers. This trail was considered to be a satanic ritual because Damien Echols wasn’t considered normal to the other members of society in his town. He did “dabble in many religions” and Satanism being one with admiring photos of torture and death, but it was not a satanic ritual. The court used members that were far

Can we shine the light on the West Memphis Three? Three teenagers named Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin spent twenty years in prison for a crime they did not do. Once convicting the boys of the murder of three young boys named Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, and James Moore. This was the most gruesome murder to occur in this small town in Arkansas. These young boys got out to play together and never came back once the sun had set. May 5th, 1993 is when the young boy’s bodies discovered

The West Memphis Three vs. The Salem Witch Trials Society makes people feel pressured to make assumptions for their own benefits. There have been many examples of this throughout history. Society has been pressuring people to change and make assumptions, dating back to the stone ages all the way until the present. Why does society pressure people to make assumptions? Society makes people feel as if they are obligated to be what other people want them to be, and perform what society wants them to

Summary: In 1983 a young 11-year-old girl, Sabrina Buie, was found in a soybean field in a rural area of Red Springs, NC. She had been raped and murdered. There was no physical evidence as to who committed the crime. However, suspicion was cast upon two half-brothers, Henry Lee McCollum, 19, and Leon Brown, 15, who had recently moved to the area from New Jersey and were considered outsiders. Both men were considered mentally disabled. The brothers were arrested. After many long hours of threats

On 2nd August 1994, 13 year old American boy Eric Smith was charged with the murder of a 4 year old boy called Derrick Robbie in Savona. Derrick Robbie was walking alone to a summer camp just down the road from where he lived, when Smith saw him and lured him off the path and into a small patch of woods on the way to the camp (Leung, 2004). It was there where Smith went on to strangle Derrick Robbie and unearthed some rocks nearby which he used to beat him to death. After this Smith sodomised the