After nearly 30 years, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled in favor of new DNA testing in the case of the 'West Memphis Three.' This decision overturns a previous denial by a circuit court and allows for further examination of evidence from the crime scene where three boys were found dead.
The request for DNA testing was made by Damien Echols, one of the teenagers convicted of the triple murder in 1994. Echols had been denied the testing in 2022 on the grounds that he was no longer in custody at the time of his request.
