Day: November 18, 2016
Seeing The World, Not The Wall: Election Lessons From Death Row
A few years ago I profiled death row inmate Damien Echols for a national magazine. After a badly bungled police investigation, Echols, 18 at the time, was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The harrowing details of Echols’s nearly two-decade long ordeal…