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A 21st century pirate faces 19th century law

Abduwali Muse won't suffer the fate of pirates convicted in colonial New York if he's found guilty of hijacking a U.S.-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. He won't be executed, tarred, stuck in an iron frame and strung up in the harbor. The treatment of buccaneers has evolved in the three centuries since the ...

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