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Angola Three: court extends Albert Woodfox's 43-year-long imprisonment
Source: The Guardian
Angola Three: court extends Albert Woodfox's 43-year-long imprisonment
Alan Yuhas in New York
Friday 12 June 2015 20.38 BST
The last imprisoned member of the so-called Angola Three will remain in prison at least until Louisiana can argue that he should face a third trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
The judges of the fifth circuit court of appeals extended the stay that blocks the release of Albert Woodfox, 68, who has spent most of 43 years in solitary confinement despite having convictions for murder twice thrown out of court.
“There is a substantial interest in staying the release of a person, twice convicted of murder, from being released from a life sentence without the possibility of parole,” the judges wrote.
Earlier this week a federal judge ordered the immediate and unconditional release of Woodfox, in an extraordinary measure forbidding the state from trying Woodfox a third time for the 1972 murder of a guard during a prison riot.
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Alan Yuhas in New York
Friday 12 June 2015 20.38 BST
The last imprisoned member of the so-called Angola Three will remain in prison at least until Louisiana can argue that he should face a third trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
The judges of the fifth circuit court of appeals extended the stay that blocks the release of Albert Woodfox, 68, who has spent most of 43 years in solitary confinement despite having convictions for murder twice thrown out of court.
“There is a substantial interest in staying the release of a person, twice convicted of murder, from being released from a life sentence without the possibility of parole,” the judges wrote.
Earlier this week a federal judge ordered the immediate and unconditional release of Woodfox, in an extraordinary measure forbidding the state from trying Woodfox a third time for the 1972 murder of a guard during a prison riot.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/12/angola-three-louisiana-denies-release-albert-woodfox-prison