On Friday, a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001 was executed by firing squad in South Carolina, in the first such execution in the United States in 15 years. It was also the first such execution in South Carolina history. But for those who have been sentenced to death in the state, … Read more
In November, two days before my 44th birthday, behind a local bike shop that I frequent, a manager from inside the shop approached me and mentioned something about the police. If I were still on probation, which I was for about three years ending in 2008, running my name might have triggered an arrest. I’d … Read more
Stephen James Hubbard left America behind decades ago, first for Japan, then Cyprus and finally Ukraine. He didn’t like the government — any government, really. He was a wanderer, growing up in a small town in Michigan and traveling the world before ending up alone in the eastern Ukrainian town of Izium when the Russians … Read more
Hamas released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for 183 Palestinians jailed by Israel, in a staged handover where rifle-toting Hamas fighters prodded their gaunt captives to give short speeches, effectively at gunpoint, thanking the militants who had held them captive for 16 months. The events made an already tenuous cease-fire more fragile, possibly … Read more
President Trump granted three different types of reprieve on Monday to all of the nearly 1,600 people who faced prosecution for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He issued formal pardons to hundreds of rioters convicted of any crimes connected to Jan. 6, starting at the low end with offenses like trespassing … Read more