Damien Echols is best known for the worst years of his life. Dubbed the "West Memphis Three," Damien Echols, 18, Jason Baldwin, 16, and Jessie Misskelley, 17, were arrested and ultimately convicted in the deaths of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore.Due to Echols’ preference for black … Johnny Depp, Damien Echols share tattoos TORONTO (AFP)Actor Johnny Depp has said he and Damien Echols, one of three men who claimed to have been wrongly convicted for 1993 satanic ritual murders, got When he was 18, Damien and two other young men were wrongfully convicted of murder, eventually becoming known as the West Memphis Three. DAMIEN ECHOLS was born in 1974 and grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. On March 19, 1994, Echols was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of three grade-school boys in … After the gruesome murders of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in 1993, a small town in Arkansas was quick to accuse three outcast teenagers. A year after they were released, two of the West Memphis Three are no longer speaking with each other. RELEASED: Damien Echols Sir Peter Jackson has had a matching tattoo inked in Queenstown along with a man he helped save from death row in the United States.

Johnny Depp adds tattoos with Damien Echols after helping secure his prison release ... Johnny Depp adds tattoos with Damien Echols after helping secure his prison release. Johnny Depp and Damien Echols, both poor boys born in Kentucky and Arkansas, respectively, each had their own path, and though Echols path was hellish while Johnny Depp’s was comparatively heavenly, they both ended up side by side, as brothers with matching tattoos. Damien Echols at a tattoo parlor in NYC Photograph: Reto Sterchi The 17-year-locust became their “symbol.” “You only get to see them so many times in your life,” Lorri says. Johnny Depp embraced 'West Memphis 3' Damien Echols at a joint appearance at the Toronto Film Festival for a documentary about Echols' wrongful murder conviction - and tells about their tattoos Echols estimates that he now has about 40 tattoos, many of them religious in nature, all of them symbolic, and all of them very new and black: old …

Damien Echols is one of the West Memphis Three, a group of three young men who spent 18 years in prison before being released last year.