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I'm sorry, but boo fucking hoo. He knew exactly what he was doing -- running a drug trafficking marketplace -- was highly illegal. He went to extensive lengths to conceal that activity from law enforcement, so it's not like he didn't know what he was doing was against the law. He made a lot of money doing this.

I'm a big believer in criminal justice reform, but this is one of those instances where what he was doing was so dangerous that someone had to be made an example of at the highest level. To be honest, his arrest and conviction likely saved his life: sooner or later the cartels would have found him, tortured him to gain control of the site, then dissolved his body in acid.