democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show with news in the case democracy now! has been following closely. herman wallace, a member of the so-called angola 3, has been released from prison after being held for nearly 42 years in solitary confinement. he was taken directly to the hospital where he now lays dying of advanced stage liver cancer. wallace and two others were in prison for armed robbery, then accused in 1972 of murdering a prison guard at the louisiana state penitentiary, known as angola. the men say they were framed because of their political activism as members of one of the first prison chapters of the black panther party. the dramatic series of events on tuesday began one federal judge brian a jackson of the middle district court of louisiana ordered wallace's release and overturn his conviction. jacksonrder, judge called...