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Damien Echols of "West Memphis Three" talks about experienice since being released

They spent nearly twenty years behind bars, convicted of a crime they said they never committed

October 01, 2011|by CNN | newsalerts@ky3.com

They spent nearly twenty years behind bars, convicted of a crime they said they never committed. Now the trio of men known as the "West Memphis Three," are adjusting to a whole new world.  They were teenagers when they were convicted of the 1993 killings of three young boys in Arkansas recent DNA testing freed them last month.

One of the men, Damien Echols, gave his first sit down interview since being released.

"There are things that most people would expect you to have to learn, you know, like I said, I had never even seen the internet so I'm learning how to use a cell phone, how to use a computer. But there are also things, for example, I hadn't walked in 18 1/2 years without chains on my feet. So I'm -- i wasn't used to that."

Echols says he's still trying to get used to sunlight, after spending nearly 10 years of his sentence in a concrete isolation cell.
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