For Immediate Release
Supersuckers Donates Autographed Items
to
Aid in Wrongfully Convicted Trio’s
Defense Fund
CowPunk band continues to join the fight to free the West Memphis Three
July 9, 2009: San Francisco, Calif.— Supersuckers and
Nashville Pussy will be auctioning autographed items on Skeleton Key Auctions (www.skeletonkeyauctions.com)
designed to raise money for the defense fund of Damien Echols, Jessie
Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin. The three Arkansas men, dubbed the West
Memphis Three (www.wm3.org), were convicted of the 1993 murders of three
elementary school children. Since their trials were chronicled by Joe Berlinger
and Bruce Sinofsky in the HBO documentary, Paradise
Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a groundswell of support has
formed around the Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin—support that includes a wide
array of artists such as Metallica, Henry Rollins, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder,
Tom Waits, Winona Ryder, South Park
creator Trey Parker, Will Ferrell, Johnny Depp, and Jello Biafra.
Supersuckers have been staunch supporters of the West
Memphis Three over the years.
They have always been gracious in donating items to folks
around the world to raise funds for the WM3 Defense Fund. The items you will be
bidding on are from their tour stop with Nashville Pussy in Dublin, Ireland.
Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin—all
teenagers at the time—were convicted in 1994 for the brutal murders of three
eight-year-old boys (Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers) in
West Memphis, Ark. despite flimsy circumstantial evidence—the bulk of which
centered around the trio’s alleged involvement in a Satanic cult—and a
questionable and factually-inaccurate confession extracted from
mentally-challenged Misskelley—the three have been serving stiff prison
sentences for nearly two decades. Misskelley was sentenced to life plus 40
years, Baldwin is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole,
and Echols—who was deemed the ringleader of the attacks thanks to his love of
black clothing and Metallica—is currently on death row as he waits for the
outcome of his appeals.
The auctions will last until August 10th. You can
bid on items autographed by recording artists, Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy,
Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon), actor/filmmaker Norman Reedus,
famed skateboarder Tommy Guerrero to name a few. All items are autographed.
For further information about the Supersuckers and other
autographed items and to place a bid, log on to www.supersuckers.com and www.skeletonkeyauctions.com.
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