Justice deferred to the end

Headline Title: Justice deferred to the end 04 October 2013 Today is a sad day for human rights and justice.Herman Wallace, the 71-year-old man who spent over 41 years in solitary confinement in prison in Louisiana, finally passed away after losing his battle with liver cancer.The only solace was that he died a free man. Last week a federal judge overturned his conviction.Even then, consistent with their decades-long obsession with keeping Herman Wallace behind bars, the state of Louisiana appealed against the court order for his immediate release.Thankfully, within hours, the same…

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