AP 3:25 p.m. EDT October 4, 2013.Herman Wallace and his legal team discuss his trip home to New Orleans after his release from Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, La., on Oct. 1, 2013.(Photo: Lauren McGaughy, AP).Story HighlightsLess than a week after the release, prisoner dies from terminal liver cancerHerman Wallace faced a 50-year armed robbery sentence after he stabbed a man to deathA new trial for Wallace was ordered on Thursday, a day before his death. Herman Wallace's attorneys said he died at a supporter's home in New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson in Baton Rouge had ordered Wallace released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Tuesday after granting him a new trial. Wallace, of New Orleans, was serving a 50-year armed robbery sentence when Miller was stabbed to death.
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