Heinous double-murderer spared death sentence by Biden now wants to be freed, arguing ‘compassionate release’
Brandon Council was sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers during a bloody ...
New Year's Resolutions for Pritzker, Johnson and Crew
With 2024 in the books and 2025 already here, gulp, our city and state find themselves in precarious places. The city of Chicago ended the year with the extraordinarily messy passage of a $17.1 ...
What Baltimore’s reelected mayor and new City Council president want to do in 2025
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen are optimistic about continuing the city’s revival in ...
Jason Lee, Chicago's shadow mayor, helps Brandon Johnson weather the political storm
Lee says he’s not at all surprised by the extraordinary pressure that he and the mayor have been under in the shark tank ...
Former federal prosecutor in death row case speaks on Biden commuting murderer's sentence: 'My heart aches'
Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden ...
Convicted Conway bank killer asks for compassionate release days after death sentence commutation
After having his death sentence commuted to life by President Joe Biden, Brandon Council is now asking for a compassionate ...
Editorial: We have some New Year’s resolutions for JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson and crew. And a few for ourselves.
With 2024 in the books and 2025 already here, gulp, our city and state find themselves in precarious places. The city of ...
Convicted South Carolina bank killer asks for 'compassionate release' days after Biden commuted death sentence
A convicted killer who ruthlessly gunned down two South Carolina bank employees in 2017 has demanded to be released from prison days after President Biden saved him from death row.
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Former federal prosecutor in death row case speaks on Biden commuting murderer’s sentence
Brandon Council, of North Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury on Oct. 3, 2019, after he was found guilty of killing two women who worked at a South Carolina bank during a robbery in ...
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NC man no longer on death row for brutal killings of Conway bank tellers. Here’s why
Brandon Council’s sentence was reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to an announcement from the White House on Dec. 22, 2024. Brandon Council The White House ...
2024 in review: A look back at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s year through Tribune editorials
No name appeared more frequently in Tribune editorials in 2024 than that of Mayor Brandon Johnson. So much so, in fact, that ...
‘Shocked’: Leaders, family react to Conway bank robbery killer’s removal from death row
Horry County leaders and family members reacted to President Biden removing Brandon Council from death row as part of his ...