Albert Woodfox, the last incarcerated member of the so-called Angola 3, was released from a prison in Louisiana on Friday, his attorneys announced.
Woodfox had spent more than four decades in solitary confinement after being convicted for the 1972 killing of guard Brent Miller at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
A federal appeals court overturned Woodfox’s conviction in 2014, but he had remained behind bars during the appeals process.
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