The West Memphis Three may be released from prison today in a plea deal. Since their conviction and incarceration in 1994, Damien Echols has been on death row; Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. have been serving life sentences.
In May 1993, three young Cub Scouts, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, were brutally murdered. Their bodies were found in a drainage ditch in Robin Hood Hills, a suburban neighborhood in West Memphis, Arkansas. Continue reading