Update on Damien Echols
My original post on Damien Echols is here.
Even in a country as brutally committed to the death penalty as the United States, the process can be long and arduous. Echols is still on death row. And there is some movement: a judge has just granted a joint request by the defense and prosecution to have samples of skin, hair, and other tissue from the victims and from under the victims' finger-nails tested for DNA.
This could be very interesting. And it's refreshing to see the prosecution join in the motion-- if they were right in targeting Echols in the first place, they should have nothing to fear.
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