April 10, 2013

Former Inmate Herman Wallace of ‘Angola 3’ Dies Days After Release

A Louisiana man freed from jail less than a week ago after 41 years in solitary confinement has died, according to his attorney and a close friend. Herman Wallace, 71, died early this morning in New Orleans at the home of close friend and program director at Tulane’s School of Medicine Ashley Wennerstrom.

Herman Wallace, Held 41 Years in Solitary, Dies at 71

Herman Wallace’s world for much of the last 41 years had been a solitary prison cell, 6 feet by 9 feet, when he left a Louisiana prison on Tuesday, freed by a federal judge who ruled that his original indictment in the killing of a prison guard had been unconstitutional. On Friday morning, Mr. Wallace died of cancer in New Orleans. He was 71.

March 10, 2013

United States of America Congressional Record – Speech of Hon. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan in the House of Representatives

Mr Conyers. Mr Speaker, we rise to commemorate the life and contributions of Herman Wallace, one of the bravest champions for justice and human rights whom we have ever met.

Dying Angola 3 member Herman Wallace reindicted, report says

Just two days after he was sent home to New Orleans to die surrounded by friends and family, terminally ill Angola 3 member Herman Wallace has been reindicted in the 1972 murder of an Angola prison guard, according to a report in The Advocate.