Ouch. I understand the charges. I understand how the system works. I understand that he was most certainly guilty of the charges. But I still can't help feeling like being in prison for the rest of your life for running a (illegal, drug filled website) sucks and doesn't seem fair. I mean people kill other people with their own hands and don't get that much time. Maybe I'm just empathetic because I feel like I understand his mindset. He was doing a thing that he didn't connect to his actual self. It was a thing, an experiment, an action that he never figured he would do forever. Now his life is over. I suppose you could say the same thing about some rapists or murderers but. I don't know. I feel for the guy. For the record, I also have empathy for white collar criminals who end up getting 1000 years. There are so many ridiculous cases. Ugh.
I feel like anyone is caught selling drugs and/or with money in the quantities that this guys was attributed to drugs would go to jail for this long. They probably dropped the murder charge because they already had him for life on a plethora of other charges and don't feel this one was worth pressing, maybe due to the fact that both parties hit man/hit were undercovers. A hazard of doing business like this is possible jail time, if he actually tried to have someone killed he more than deserves what he got. He's like a mafia don that thinks by having other people do his shit work, he stays clean. Thanks to laws like conspiracy and intent though, this isn't the case.