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Herman Wallace RIP: the Black Panther tortured by the US for 41 years

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MAYBE Herman Wallace can find peace in death. The Black Panther fighter who spent 41 of his 71 years in solitary confinement in a US prison has died. For more than four decades he lived in a cell measuring 2m by 3m. Alone.

Three days before his death, the US freed him from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. And then the liver cancer got him. He died at a home in New Orleans.

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Posted: 5th, October 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment