President Trump freed gang leader Larry Hoover from his federal prison sentence on Wednesday. Hoover helped start the Gangster Disciples gang in Chicago decades ago. The 74-year-old man has spent almost 30 years locked up alone in a super-secure Colorado prison. Trump signed papers that ended Hoover's federal punishment for drug crimes, but the gang leader cannot walk free. He must stay behind bars because Illinois courts gave him 200 years for killing someone in 1973.
Hoover shot a 19-year-old drug dealer named William Young back when he was younger. State judges sentenced him to two centuries in prison for that murder. Federal courts later punished him again for running drugs, but Trump erased that punishment. The gang boss will not...