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Justice groups push new DNA testing in West Memphis Three case

Three groups including The Innocence Project have joined Damien Echols' effort to get new DNA testing on shoelaces used to hogtie victims.
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Damien Echols seeks to test evidence in West Memphis child murders with state Supreme Court appeal

Lawyers on behalf of Damien Echols today filed an appeal with the Arkansas Supreme Court, asking it to reverse a lower court ruling that dismissed his petition to use enhance DNA testing on evidence in the West Memphis Three murder case. 
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Damien Echols loses bid for DNA testing of evidence from West Memphis murder investigation. He'll appeal.

The decision will be appealed.

West Memphis Three lawyer reviews West Memphis police evidence in the case

Lawyer finally gets a look at evidence retained by police in West Memphis Three case. DNA testing will follow.
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The 'magick' of Damien Echols

More than the top half of the front of the Thursday Styles section in the print New York Times and a full page inside is filled with an account of Damien Echols, now holding forth to audiences on "magick."

Storage unit buy yields Damien Echols' journals

WMCA in Memphis reports on a Bull Shoals man's purchase at auction of the contents of a storage locker apparently abandoned by Lorri Davis, wife of Damien Echols.
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UPDATE Attorneys for Ledell Lee argue they should be allowed to locate, test DNA evidence collected in 1993 as part of innocence claim

In a hearing this afternoon before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herbert Wright, attorneys for death row inmate Ledell Lee argued that they should be allowed to locate evidence collected prior to his arrest in 1993, including a single hair and a Converse shoe with a pinhead-sized spot of human blood on it, for modern DNA testing. They hope testing can prove Lee's innocence by showing that the African-American hair found at the crime scene belongs to someone other than Lee, and that the speck of blood found on Lee's shoe does not belong to the victim in the case.

Death row inmates' federal lawsuit, day four

Attorneys and experts ventured deep into the weeds of the available medical literature on the drug midazolam today in federal court, where they are arguing for and against a federal lawsuit brought by Arkansas death row prisoners seeking to make the case that the state's abbreviated execution schedule — which would see seven men executed this month — would violate the Eighth Amendment and their right to effective counsel. Midazolam is a sedative that is the first of a three-drug cocktail the state plans to use to execute seven inmates this month. Today is the final day of four days of hearings in the matter.
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Damien Echols on returning to Arkansas

Damien Echols doesn't relish the visit, but he'll be in Arkansas Friday to protest coming executions, a punishment he faced for years before being freed in 2011.

Damien Echols joins the anti-execution campaign

Damien Echols, the West Memphis Three defendant who spent18  years on Death Row before his release, has joined those speaking out against the eight executions planned in April in Arkansas.
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WM3 supporters rally at State Capitol, call for case to be reopened.

Marking the twenty-second anniversary of the deaths of Stevie Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore, three eight year old boys left in a muddy ditch after being murdered in West Memphis on May 5, 1993, about 30 people rallied on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol today, asking that the state to reopen the investigation into the boys' deaths.

Gov. Mike Beebe will not pardon the West Memphis Three

Gov. Mike Beebe, citing procedural reasons, said he couldn't grant executive clemency to the West Memphis Three before he left office even if he was inclined to do so. What's more, none has sought a pardon.
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