1. Damien Echols has been featured in multiple books, documentaries, and podcasts about his spiritual works and the West Memphis Three case.
19 Facts About Damien Echols
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Damien Wayne Echols was born Michael Wayne Hutchison on December 11,1974.
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Damien Echols lived with his mother and father until their divorce, when he was 8.
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The family frequently moved and Damien Echols would attend eight schools before the age of ten.
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Damien Echols was still in the ninth grade at the age of 17.
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In 1993, when Damien Echols was 18, he was arrested along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley for the murder of three eight-year-olds: Steve Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers.
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In May 1998, Damien Echols won a hearing on charges that his defense counsel had been incompetent, but Judge Burnett ruled against him in June 1999.
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Damien Echols spent his time on death row at the Varner Unit Supermax.
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Damien Echols spent most of the 18 years in prison studying magic.
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In 1996, Damien Echols met his future wife Lorri Davis, a landscape architect who learned about the case after seeing Paradise Lost in New York and wrote him a letter.
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The state's high court rebuked Burnett's 2008 decision not to grant Damien Echols a hearing on the DNA evidence before rejecting his request for a new trial.
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In 2012, Damien Echols published the book Life After Death, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
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Damien Echols has had a number of art exhibitions, showing pieces of art that he created in prison.
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Damien Echols has held a number of events devoted to ceremonial magic.
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In 2022, Damien Echols and Davis published their second co-authored book together titled Ritual: An Essential Grimoire, which is a compendium of rituals, prayers, and meditations.
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Damien Echols co-wrote the lyrics to the song "Army Reserve" from the 2006 Pearl Jam album.
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Damien Echols's is a central figure of Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, a 2002 true crime book by Mara Leveritt.
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Damien Echols's character was played by an upcoming actor, James Hamrick.
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Damien Echols's character walked the main character Clancy through the philosophy of magic.