Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick: After almost two decades on death row, this member of the West Memphis Three is touring America, teaching the rituals that set him free.

West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols will discuss his new book High Magick with Sturgill Simpson in November

Damien Echols Says He Is Proof Arkansas Sends ‘Innocent People to Death’

Former death row inmate channels experience and magic into his art, on display at Copro Gallery.

Vice Catches Up with Damien Echols, Former Death Row Inmate and a Member of the West Memphis Three

How ‘West of Memphis’ Helped Free the West Memphis Three: Sometimes a documentary about a newsworthy story, becomes part of the story itself.

When shooting began on Amy Berg’s documentary, the West Memphis Three were inmates with no hope of release. Peter Jackson’s involvement in the film and the trio’s defense, and the release of the men during the project, caught many by surprise.

West of Memphis, a powerful Peter Jackson documentary, charts the ongoing fight for justice for three men wrongly convicted as child killers

Mr. Echols, who may love heavy metal but cites a Medici as a role model, is a free man with his own celebrity aura. He has written a haunting book, and the story it tells is hardly over.

On a Thursday afternoon walk along Canal Street, Damien Echols was reflecting on how this busy thoroughfare once nourished him in the first few months after his August 2011 release from a super-maximum-security prison in Arkansas.

“Echols is at heart a poet and mystic, and he has written not just a quickie one-off book to capitalize on a lurid news story, but rather a work of art that occasionally bears a resemblance to the work of Jean Genet.”