Thursday, May 28, 2015

Damien Echols and Lorri Davis

Imagine being sentenced to prison for a crime you didn't commit. What if your lifeline is love letter? Would you have the courage to show your heart to the world? From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally with Damien Echols and Lorri Davis New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. As part of the “West Memphis Three”, Damien Echols was on death row for 18 years for a crime he did not commit. In 1996, Lorri Davis, sympathetic to Damien’s wrongful incarceration, wrote him a letter. So began a love story that has spanned almost 2 decades. Yours for Eternity begins as an exchange of letters between two worlds and becomes a remarkable story of love under seemingly insurmountable circumstances. Echols and Davis were married in 1999 at Tucker Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, Arkansas. With the help of celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder, the tireless work of hundreds who believed in Damien’s innocence, and Lorri Davis’ strength and iron will, Echols was finally released in 2011 to rejoin the world and his wife. The account of how Echols and Davis kept their marriage alive and evolving is moving, miraculous, and incredibly inspiring. Damien Echols is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, Life After Death

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