Plum@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWest Memphis Three - three teenagers received max sentences for killing three children, with no physical evidence or motive linking them to the crime, as a result of the Satanic Panic.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkWest Memphis Three - three teenagers received max sentences for killing three children, with no physical evidence or motive linking them to the crime, as a result of the Satanic Panic.en.wikipedia.orgPlum@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareHelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIIRC one of them got out on an Alford plea, and is still trying to fight it. People forget what this was like. Just being a weird kid and playing Dungeons & Dragons was enough to get you condemned as a devil-worshiper.
minus-squarenocturne@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI think they all took that plea. Maybe all three had to take it. My wife reads about them a lot, so i get her ADHD info dumps about them from time to time.
IIRC one of them got out on an Alford plea, and is still trying to fight it.
People forget what this was like. Just being a weird kid and playing Dungeons & Dragons was enough to get you condemned as a devil-worshiper.
I think they all took that plea. Maybe all three had to take it. My wife reads about them a lot, so i get her ADHD info dumps about them from time to time.