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Thursday, February 19 2009 10:50 PM |
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I'm auctioning a off a tattoo to benefit the WM3 |
I am auctioning off a tattoo on skeletonkeyauctions.com.
I’m auctioning 5 hours worth of tattooing, the bids start at $500 and all of the proceeds go to
benefit the West Memphis Three. We need to do everything we can to get them free.
In case you don't know about the west memphis 3, here's a brief run down
When I first heard this story when I was a kid, I couldn’t believe it was true. The idea that people could imprisoned for not committing a crime was completely foreign to me. Your average person thinks the same way, how can someone go to jail, face the death penalty, for not committing a crime. Isn’t the justice system suppose to make sure that that doesn’t happen? Aren’t we suppose to live in a country that protects it’s people? Here again is a wool being pulled over the eyes of all of us.. For the next month we are going to be discussing people who are now in prison for crimes they did not commit. Many of these are on death row. People facing death because of an unjust judicial system.
I think we have all heard about the west memphis 3, here’s some of the story.
This comes from www.wm3.org.
Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence?
The same police officers coerced an error-filled “confession” from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994.
Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.
For over 15 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment.
for more info visit wm3.org
go by skeletonkeyauctions.com and place a bid.
We need to do everything we can for these men.
for more info visit seanherman.com |
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