We, the UNDERSIGNED, call on Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to fully exonerate Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, known as the West Memphis Three, by granting them pardons based on their innocence.

These three men were convicted as teenagers of murdering three young boys, despite no physical evidence linking them to the crime. DNA tests 15 years after the crime turned up no genetic materials matching any of the three defendants. Amidst horror and hysteria, the three teenagers were convicted on the basis of false confessions and innuendos. Nearly two decades later and the attention of a world-wide campaign to free them, they accepted an Alford plea to obtain their freedom. But they deserve a full exoneration.

Please pardon the West Memphis Three based on the absence of evidence of their guilt and clear their records, so they can rebuild their lives free from the stain of conviction of a crime they did not commit.