Albert Woodfox was an American known as one of the Angola Three (Robert King, Herman Wallace and Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for decades after being convicted for the murder of , a prison guard on 17 April 1972. Woodfox was released on 19 February 2016, his 69th birthday.
His shows that he died, aged 75 years, on 4 August 2022 from complications caused by Covid.
See Herman Wallace for more information.
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Albert Woodfox
Angola Three: Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, King Wilkerson
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In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
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Person, Law, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, India, Pakistan
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