Just a little over a year ago, Echols was facing execution on Arkansas' death row:
"You sleep on concrete. You walk on concrete. You sit on concrete. It wears the joints of your body out. You're living with death hanging over your head at any moment, and all these things combined wear you down," he said.
He wears glasses in order to see beyond four or five inches from his face, due, he says, to being enclosed in a very small space for so many years.
"Your eyes are just like any other part of your body. If it doesn't get use, it starts to wither away. And that's what happened to my eyes."
And then in August of 2011, after spending nearly two decades in Arkansas prisons, Damien Echols and two other men were suddenly released as part of a highly-unusual plea deal (which we'll explain later).
Source: CBSNews, Sept. 16, 2012
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