Sickness cited in request for 1 of Angola 3
BY MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
Capitol news bureau
July 14, 2013
Officials with the human rights organization said Friday that 71-year-old Herman Wallace has advanced liver cancer and should go home to his family.
“He’s terminally ill. (His life expectancy is) up to a year, but it could be far less than that,” said Jasmine Heiss, a campaigner for Amnesty International.
Wallace, Albert Woodfox and former inmate Robert King became known as the Angola 3 for spending decades in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. They joined the Black Panthers after arriving at Angola in the late 1960s.
During the 1970s, Woodfox and Wallace – who were serving 50-year sentences for armed robbery – were convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of prison guard Brent Miller.
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