Some justice

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

(2011)

No brainer: DirecTV gives me a free sample of HBO right when something they're showing gets nominated for a documentary Oscar®? Sure, I'll watch it.

The West Memphis Three were teenagers when arrested, tried, and convicted of the murders and mutilations of three 8-year-old boys; 18 years and two HBO films by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky that raised an army of crusaders on behalf of the convicts--including the stepfather of one of the victims, once as rabid in his calls for hellfire retribution as anyone; including also, in the case of Damien Echols, the oldest and the ostensible ringleader, a devoted wife--later, the boys are young men, two of them intelligent and articulate young men, the third as simple and soulful as when the police bullied him into a patently false confession.

The subtitle of the third installment is more of a spoiler than I'm prepared to give. All I'll say is that even if this didn't put a notch on your belt for the Oscar® party, you'd be well rewarded by watching yet another account of justice deferred.