The Pardon of William Calley

On September 4, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed Proclamation 4311, granting Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed as president. Ford paid an enormous political price. But decades earlier, a lesser-known pardon illuminated the same principle Paul unfolds in Romans 4. In 1830, George Wilson was convicted of robbing the U. S. Mail and sentenced to death by hanging.…