[pcthrowaway]

> And the answer to me, primarily because he was planning on killing five people is quite a long time.

Would you agree that he shouldn't be in prison for the crimes he was convicted of at least? Because he wasn't tried or convicted of murder-for-hire (yet?)

[scoofy]

He isn’t in prison for murder. He is in prison for operating possibly the largest illegal drug market to ever exist.

The conviction and sentencing limits are of course there for anyone to see.

[from]

Silk Road did like $50-100 million in volume if you measure by bitcoin prices at the time. Tenderloin and a few neighborhoods in San Francisco alone probably have more annual volume than that.