The West Memphis 3 is composed of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin.  The three of them were convicted in 1994 for killing three eight year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The conviction came even with the lack of substantial evidence presented by the prosecution. Echols was sentenced to death while Misskelley and Baldwin were sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2007 however, forensic evidence came out that proved that the DNA collected in the crime scene did not match any of the defendants. The emergence of this new evidence allowed the West Memphis 3 to enter the Alford pleas which Judge David Laser accepted. Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin have been released with a ten year suspended sentence; they were just teenagers when they were imprisoned.