Damien Echols is one of the West Memphis Three, who have been imprisoned for the murder of three second grade boys in Memphis. There is significant doubt about whether these boys were imprisoned correctly, or whether they were railroaded in a rush to judgment. Damien is the only one of the three boys on death row, and Rollins has more to do with him and his wife, Lorri Davis, than with the other two boys. By the time Rollins gets interested in their case, the boys have been in prison for ten years.
