Biography:
Damien Echols grew up in the South. At the age of eighteen he and two other teenagers were wrongfully convicted of murder. They would become known as the West Memphis Three. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on death row until he was released in 2011. The WM3 have been the subject of Paradise Lost, a three-part documentary series produced by HBO, and West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Echols is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Life After Death (2012), and Yours for Eternity, which he co-wrote with his wife, Lorri Davis. Echols is an artist, and has had two sold-out shows at Sacred Gallery in New York City. He is preparing for several group shows in Los Angeles with his art collective known as "The Hand".