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Damien Echols has filed an appeal to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were collected in the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis on May 5, 1993.
Crittenden County Circuit Court Judge Tonya Alexander denied a petition Thursday (June 23) by Damien Echols to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were recovered in the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis.
M-Vac is now primarily used to collect DNA in criminal cases. A man who pleaded to an Alford Plea in the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Damien Echols, has petitioned the state of Arkansas to use M-Vac testing on the ligatures collected in the case.
A hearing Thursday will consider a request by one of three men convicted of the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old West Memphis boys for new testing of evidence.
Damien Echols has filed a petition to test DNA that could potentially exonerate him in the killing of three boys killed in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1994.