Innocent Death Row inmate claims cruel guards used prisoners as ‘slave labour’

A man who spent 18 years on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit claims guards used his fellow murderous inmates for 'slave labour'.

Damian Echols and his two friends were sentenced to death in Arkansas' Supermax facility in 1994 after being falsely convicted of the murder of three boys at the height of the so-called "Satanic panic" in the USA.

In 1993 the bodies of 8-year-olds Christopher Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore were found in a creek near West Memphis.

They were naked and hogtied and it was believed they had been killed as part of a Satanic ritual, however the killer and their motive has never been found.

After being released in 2011 when DNA testing proved Damian and his friends were innocent, the former inmate took to Reddit to debunk the popular misconceptions about Death Row.

Reacting to one user's questions about meal times, Damian was blunt in his assessment of the prison's demands on its prisoners.

They said: "What was the reasoning behind the crazy meal schedules in prison? Why is breakfast at 2:30am?"

Damien replied: "Breakfast is at 2:30 AM so that they can have everyone working in the fields by 5 AM.

"They want to get as much slave labour out of everyone as they possibly can."

In his grim account, Damien pulled no punches and answered any and all questions put to him, no matter how dark.

In one disturbing passage, he even claimed to have seen a man burned alive with homemade napalm.

A user asked: "What was the most disturbing thing you saw or experienced while incarcerated?"

Damian said: "There were so many things that I barely even know where to begin.

"A lot of it would be the executions. There were between 25 and 30 executions during the time I was on death row.

"I once saw two men stabbed repeatedly. I've seen men beaten so badly they were unrecognisable.

"I saw a man who had been burned with homemade napalm. The list goes on and on. I saw a lot of things that I'll carry with me to my dying day."

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