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Echols, 37, was released from prison in August 2011 along with Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin after agreeing to an Alford plea, which allows the men to maintain their innocence while pleading guilty. As he continues his quest for full exoneration, Echols said he’s no longer angry about that lost time and solely focused on making the most of each new day.
“If I sat around and dwelled on it, I guess I would be [angry], but I’m not for the most part,” Echols told FoxNews.com. “For the first three to four years on death row, it was eating me alive. It was really, really bad. From the instant that my eyes opened in the morning, I was p----- off. I was never supposed to be there in the first place, they didn’t have the right to do this to me.”
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In 2007, Echols’ attorneys said new DNA tests — paid, in part, by Jackson — taken from the muddy wooded area where the boys were found naked and bound in a drainage ditch did not match any of the three men. Echols, for his part, said he believes Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, should be further investigated in the 1993 triple murder.
“I do know that they never had any physical evidence attaching me or [Misskelley and Baldwin],” he said. “They actually had physical evidence putting [Hobbs] at the crime scene and we have several witnesses who have come forward who said relatives told them he did it.”
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“If I sat around and dwelled on it, I guess I would be [angry], but I’m not for the most part,” Echols told FoxNews.com. “For the first three to four years on death row, it was eating me alive. It was really, really bad. From the instant that my eyes opened in the morning, I was p----- off. I was never supposed to be there in the first place, they didn’t have the right to do this to me.”
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In 2007, Echols’ attorneys said new DNA tests — paid, in part, by Jackson — taken from the muddy wooded area where the boys were found naked and bound in a drainage ditch did not match any of the three men. Echols, for his part, said he believes Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, should be further investigated in the 1993 triple murder.
“I do know that they never had any physical evidence attaching me or [Misskelley and Baldwin],” he said. “They actually had physical evidence putting [Hobbs] at the crime scene and we have several witnesses who have come forward who said relatives told them he did it.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/1...fe-after-death/?test=latestnews#ixzz29KAM0ZtN
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/1...fe-after-death/?test=latestnews#ixzz29KA9zBBb