8½-Year Sentence for American Who Fought for ISIS Is Too Lenient, Says Sixth Circuit

8½-Year Sentence for American Who Fought for ISIS Is Too Lenient, Says Sixth Circuit

From Wednesday's decision by Judge Amul Thapar, joined by Judges Julia Gibbons and Joan Larsen, in U.S. v. Ramic: Over a decade ago, a new wave of terrorism spread across the Middle East. A group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sought to establish a new regime strictly governed by Islamic law. To do so, ISIS employed brutal tactics—planting bombs, publicly decapitating its enemies, burning people alive, and enslaving wo…