But Bates’s no-nonsense approach to crime and dogged determination to hold all lawbreakers accountable created a seismic shift in how crime and punishment would be tackled in Maryland’s largest city.
—
Barnini Chakraborty,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
Pardons shouldn’t be gifts for friends, donors, and relatives who happen to be lawbreakers.
Imagine Millennial filmmakers asserting a new neorealism to examine the intimate, fraternal, and familial relations of those infamous Martin, Brown, and Floyd reprobates.
—
Armond White,
National Review,
19 June 2024
All these years later, all of us remain just as torn about these enormously charismatic reprobates.
This shortcoming extends to its assortment of villains who, despite including celebrity appearances like AEW wrestler Samoa Joe, fail to leave a memorable impression beyond being yet another obstacle on the way to the end credits.
—
Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
Ant-Man met a villain named Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania who battled multiple versions of himself from different timelines.
But these men remain felons convicted of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to stop the peaceful transfer of power between former President Joe Biden and Trump.
—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
Andrews has been charged with capital murder and possessing a firearm as a felon, Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker said on Jan. 28.
To the very end, King—an imperfect man and sinner, as all Christians are—did what he was called to do: preach and teach Jesus Christ's radical message of love.
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David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
The sacrament of Confession in Catholicism is one way to get sins pardoned, releasing the sinner from eternal punishment.
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