Click for accessible search Skip Navigation

LIVE from the NYPL: Life After Death: DAMIEN ECHOLS in conversation with HENRY ROLLINS

Recommend
Email
Share
November 7, 2012

Watch video on your iPhone or iPad

Viewing videos on NYPL.org requires Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher.

Get the Flash plugin from adobe.com

Embed

Copy the embed code below to add this video to your site, blog, or profile.

In 1993, then 18-year-old Damien Echols was arrested along with fellow teenagers Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. and charged with the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. As the supposed “ringleader” of the group, Echols was sentenced to death, while Baldwin and Misskelley were given life sentences. The convicted men, known as the West Memphis Three, ultimately became part of one of the most notorious cases of wrongful conviction in recent history.

Damien Echols, the central figure of the West Memphis Three, presents a gripping, eloquently written account of his early life, his arrest and trial, his eighteen years on death row, his new life after prison, and his ongoing quest for full exoneration in his definitive memoir, Life After Death. In conversation with Henry Rollins, a longtime supporter of the effort to free the West Memphis Three, Echols will discuss the story of his life before and after his trial, including his spiritual and intellectual journey in prison as well as his wife, Lorri Davis, whom he met and married while on death row. As inspiring as it is terrifying, Life After Death reveals Echols to be not only a survivor, but also an extraordinary writer.

 

 
FRIENDS of the NYPL receive discounted tickets and special pre-sales to LIVE events

LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.

 

 

 

 

Media Sponsor

 

Post a Comment

Comments

Patron-generated content represents the views and interpretations of the patron, not necessarily those of The New York Public Library. For more information see NYPL's Website Terms and Conditions.

Audio/Video

Submitted by Anonymous on November 28, 2012 at 10:23 PM.

Why have the audio and video been removed from the website?

Life After Death

Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM.

What also needs to be considered here is the criminal aspects of the prosecution. Meaning that, by exoneration the prosecution would have to answer questions about their evidence such as the “Lake Knife”, suspiciously found behind Jason’s home with much media present. Very suspicious in the aspect that “IF” it was a lead, why was the media informed in advance when the odds were, it could have never been found?

Our justice system operates on two levels, should the citizenship lie they have the book thrown at them, but should they (our judicial) lie, and they do, we are expected to ignore, or forgive them.

I feel the prosecution in this case knew they were railroading innocent boys and did not care, nor do they care about the victims to do such a thing. This is a travesty of justice, that they will do anything to improve their career advancements. And that is why they will never reopen this case and rather let a child killer walk free…and this killer knows this.

Chat with a librarian now

Customize This