damien echols has heard some swearing. [laughter] >> we were living in the same house. hbo used to have free weekend i never would have seen the movie if not for that. [laughter] i think like everybody else they are outraged and because it was made into a movie we thought somebody was taking care of it but later did research on line to see their still in prison and nothing was being done. that is when we decided it was time to do something. >> host: i did not realize you went to law school because of what you learned to assist damien? >> afterwards rethought how could this happen? somebody will get him out of jail tomorrow. that somebody smart would see it and i was so i leave i thought somebody would just let them out of jail that they would say shit, a sorry. wall. [laughter] then we found out they were still in one year later. i thought that does not seem right. maya decided to go back to school. that entities to do something i could not believe that could happen. >> host: did he you put together an album? >> at the time i was managing a band i went and it seemed lik

. >> next on booktv, damien echols recalls his arrest, incarceration and eventual release for the murder of three 8-year-old boys in 1993. mr. echols and two other men, jesse and jason baldwin dubbed the west memphis three, spent 17 years in prison. mr. echols discusses the case and his time spent on death row at town hall seattle. it's about an hour, ten. [applause] >> um, thank you guys for coming out tonight. damien, thank you very much for coming all the way to seattle. >> thank you for having me. >> um, you have been through something that i think not that many people have been through, a sort of grind that feels like it might never end and sort of you wonder if one day will just run into the next. and i speak, of course, of the media tour you've been on for this book. [laughter] "life after death." what is more mundane, prison or doing a book tour? [laughter] >> in some ways the book tour's actually a little more stressful. [laughter] at least when you're in prison, you're not being stared at by 400 people. [laughter] >> um, can i just get a show of hands, how many people know abou