[alexknvl]

Even if you do not think that, your fellow humans do. If you put power into their hands to decide who should hang, a lot of innocent people will.

What you are talking about is completely orthogonal to the first amendment. Everyone has a right to speech and everyone is protected from vehicular assault & murder by law. I hope that everyone on Hacker News condemns that act of violence.

Could you please point to the source of your claim that he was a "card-carrying Nazi"?

[flunhat]

Photos of James Alex Fields before he drove his car through the crowd have him among the Vanguard America group, which (according to Wikipedia) is an American white nationalist group. His high school friends and teacher also say that he had a deep obsession with Nazis. So that makes him a card carrying Nazi in my eyes. There's also more evidence of his ideology if you just google his name.