Damian Eccles, released from Arkansas Department of Correction, Varner Unit in 2011,

in an interview with Amy Goodman, makes this chilling statement.

What it all came down to for me was we knew we would win this eventually.

We would be exonerated eventually.

The state knew that.

But they presented this deal to us, basically saying you can sign this paperwork and you can walk out of prison this week.

You can go home before this week is out.

Or you can refuse this deal.

And yeah, you'll eventually win,

but we'll drag this out for another five, ten years, however long it takes.

You know, Scott Ellington also says in the movie,

the prosecutor, that one of the considerations they had in offering,

and agreeing to this deal,

was that the three of us together could have effectively sued the state for $60 million.

So you take that in consideration with the fact that I also knew how corrupt and how desperate they were,

and I knew they could have had me stabbed to death in that prison any day of the week for $50.

So I knew I would never live to see that exoneration.

I'm going to be. Hi, it's Roberta Glass, and today we have on Gary Meese to talk about Damien Eccles, wrongfully incarcerated. Stay tuned.

So today I have Gary Meese with us.

Gary is the author of three books on the West Memphis Three,

Where the Monsters Go, Blood on Black,

and a condensed version of the two,

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