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In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with thousands of supporters and many notable celebrities who called for a new trial. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011.
Now Echols shares his story in full—from abuse by prison guards and wardens, to portraits of fellow inmates and deplorable living conditions, to the incredible reserves of patience, spirituality, and perseverance that kept him alive and sane while incarcerated for nearly two decades.
In these pages, Echols reveals himself a brilliant writer, infusing his narrative with tragedy and irony in equal measure: he describes the terrors he experienced every day and his outrage toward the American justice system, and offers a firsthand account of living on Death Row in heartbreaking, agonizing detail. Life After Death is destined to be a riveting, explosive classic of prison literature.
作者简介
達米恩．艾寇斯Damien Echols
1974年生，在密西西比州、田納西州、馬里蘭州、奧勒岡州、德州、路易西安納州和阿肯色州長大，十八歲那一年跟傑森．鮑德溫和傑西．米斯克利（後來人稱西曼菲斯三人組）因羅賓漢山謀殺案被誤判有罪，並判處死刑，在死囚區服刑十八年，2011年三人接受所謂的艾佛德認罪協議，在阿肯色州政府同意下獲釋。HBO製作的三集紀錄片《失樂園》（Paradise Lost），以及彼得傑克森和法蘭華許製作的《非法的正義》（West of Memphis）都以西曼菲斯三人組為主題。艾寇斯自費出版了一本回憶錄《快到家了》（Almost Home）。他和妻子洛莉．戴維斯目前定居於紐約市。
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賴盈滿
倫敦政經學院科學哲學碩士，現專事翻譯，譯有《海拉細胞的不死傳奇》《娥摩拉》《神話簡史》和《資訊：一段歷史、一個理論、一股洪流》等書。
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2013/06/28 看完West of Memphis后立刻买了这本回忆录。读毕更加崇拜此人，内心无比强大。太多观点和感受真是写到我心坎里去了，一定要再读一遍做些摘抄。这里记下两句："...there's only one real source of wisdom -- pain." "I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the universe. One is love, the other is intelligence."
评分作者是个很强大的人，也是个很能写的人。虽然他的倾向性十分明显，且略偏激，我却很可以理解，因为如果我经历了和他一样的事情，不是早疯了就是比他更偏激。其实从他的叙述中，不仅可以看出他个人的心理，同时也可以看出某种畸形状态下的社会心理。蛮奇葩的。
评分作者是个很强大的人，也是个很能写的人。虽然他的倾向性十分明显，且略偏激，我却很可以理解，因为如果我经历了和他一样的事情，不是早疯了就是比他更偏激。其实从他的叙述中，不仅可以看出他个人的心理，同时也可以看出某种畸形状态下的社会心理。蛮奇葩的。
评分2013/06/28 看完West of Memphis后立刻买了这本回忆录。读毕更加崇拜此人，内心无比强大。太多观点和感受真是写到我心坎里去了，一定要再读一遍做些摘抄。这里记下两句："...there's only one real source of wisdom -- pain." "I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the universe. One is love, the other is intelligence."
评分作者是个很强大的人，也是个很能写的人。虽然他的倾向性十分明显，且略偏激，我却很可以理解，因为如果我经历了和他一样的事情，不是早疯了就是比他更偏激。其实从他的叙述中，不仅可以看出他个人的心理，同时也可以看出某种畸形状态下的社会心理。蛮奇葩的。
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