Arkansas Fights to Execute Two Men Without Testing DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate Them

Summary: Damien Echols neverplanned to come back to Arkansas. “These days, I try to look forward,” he wrote in his 2012 memoir, Life After Death.“I’m tired of looking back.” After spending half his life on Arkansas’s death row – he was finally released in 2011 – Echols was “sick to death” of his claim to fame as one of the West Memphis Three. “It’s a title I’d prefer never to hear again,” he wrote.