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Feb 24, 2008 18:34

Damien Wayne Echols (born Michael Wayne Hutcheson on December 11, 1974) is one of the 3 members of the West Memphis 3, a group convicted of committing a triple homicide in West Memphis, Arkansas. Echols was convicted of murder by a jury and sentenced to die by lethal injection. His conviction and sentence have been upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Echols was arrested on June 3, 1993, and has been in prison ever since.

The case has received considerable attention. Many critics[attribution needed]charge that the arrests and convictions were a miscarriage of justice inspired by a misguided moral panic, and that the defendants were wrongfully convicted during a period of intense media scrutiny and so-called "Satanic panic".
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