Washington (AFP) – Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers who spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement for a murder he claimed he did not commit, has died at the age of 75. Woodfox, who was released from prison in February 2016, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday of complications from Covid-19, his lawyer, George Kendall, said. Woodfox and Herman Wallace, another African American inmate at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola, were convicted of the 1972 murder of a white prison guard, Brent Miller. Both men maintained their innocence. Woodfo…