albert woodfox remains in prison. as we said, herman wallace, in a complete surprise but of a federal judge, had his conviction overturned yesterday with the demand for his immediate release, which happened last night. robert king, you are in prison with herman wallace and the visiting him to say your final goodbye as he lay dying of liver cancer. you delivered the news to him about the overturning of his conviction. how did herman respond? >> inc. you, amy. -- thank you, amy. straight to the point, yes, when we brought the news to herman that he was being released, we had to do it in bits and pieces. we have learned that herman's case had been overturned. we were a bit surprised, but we had good news. him, he is in pretty bad shape. his body is failing him. but i was there not so much to witness his death, but as you said, to try to encourage him to hold on and try to get him to recognize his supporters, lawyers were on board, trying to get him released from prison. this, weeard about told him. i think we managed to

the congressional record, saying -- amnesty international has launched a campaign calling for albert woodfox'selease. the final imprisoned member of the angola 3 has had his conviction overturned three times, but he remains in solitary confinement at the david wade correctional center in homer, louisiana, where he is subjected to strip searches and anal cavity searches as many as six times a day. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a democracy now! special, we spend the hour with four former government officials, all whistleblowers themselves, who have just returned from visiting national security agency whistleblower edward snowden in russia. they are former cia analyst ray mcgovern, former fbi agent coleen rowley, former national security agency senior executive thomas drake, and his lawyer, former u.s. justice department ethics advisor jesselyn radack. last week, the group became the first americans known to meet with former nsa contractor snowden in russia since he was temporary silent -- asylum there in