![Many Democracies Have Prosecuted Ex-Leaders. The Politics Can Be Tough. Many Democracies Have Prosecuted Ex-Leaders. The Politics Can Be Tough.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/03/24/multimedia/00world-leaders-indicted-01-hbfp/00world-leaders-indicted-01-hbfp-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Many Democracies Have Prosecuted Ex-Leaders. The Politics Can Be Tough.
The United States has recently joined a growing list of several dozen nations that have prosecuted former heads of state or government on federal criminal charges in the past two decades. While