ABSTRACT
Forty years ago today, three black men, Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were accused of a murder they did not commit. They were thrown into solitary confinement. Twenty-nine years later, King was 313released and his initial conviction overturned, but Wallace and Woodfox remain in punitive isolation, despite a 2006 recommendation from the State Judicial Commissioner to overturn Wallace’s conviction, and a 2008 court decision overturning Woodfox’s conviction (later reversed by the 5th Appellate Court). The case against them is riddled with inconsistencies and evidence of bribery and corruption, detailed by Amnesty International and other organizations.
