Free!

It is with great happiness that I can now write a blog about the West Memphis Three (WM3) being released from prison. It is now known that they are 3 innocent men, their case being a huge miscarriage of justice and them having served 18 unjustified years in prison. Damien on death row.
Earlier today, ironically, I watched the trailer for Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, the third film in the series of documentaries about the WM3 case. It showed Damien talking to the creators, saying that if it wasn't for those two men, he would have been murdered and everything would have been swept under the rug. He will now know just how true that statement is.

On Friday 19th August 2011, the WM3, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley were freed from their life sentences (and Damien's death sentence) under a plea bargain called the Alford plea. Strangely, no UK media outlets seem to have picked up on it. It's massive news in the US, obviously, although I've no doubt that there will be a considerable percentage of the public still convinced they're guilty. Sadly, some of those people made it to the courtroom, yelling out 'baby killers' as the 3 men left.

I honestly have no idea what the point of this blog is, but I'm pleased that they've finally got some justice and can live the rest of their lives as free men.