For creating Silk Road, I think there should be no punishment at all. For hiring hitmen multiple times and attempting to kill 6 people, I think he should spend life in prison.
> what should be my sentence of saying Alex should be killed? ;)
That's not what happened. What should your sentence be if you paid a hitman $150,000 to kill me but he didn't actually? Look at it from my perspective - this guy being out of jail is a danger to my life. Just because he failed to do it doesn't make it justice.
He hired a hitman for $80K to kill someone. Then he later hired a different hitman for $150K to kill someone. Then he hired the same hitman again for $650K to kill 4 more people. Each time he believed he was doing it. They sent him photos of the body (which detectives recovered... but I guess was fake?)
He sent money the money (to the second guy) to a Bitcoin address, which you can look at and verify. It's included in the transcript.
They are saying the second guy scammed him hard and never actually committed any of the murders. The first guy supposedly also scammed him. But imagine paying someone nearly a million dollars to kill 6 people. This man is a danger to society.
I brought up Aaron Swartz because he is an actual libertarian icon who was falsely prosecuted. Why not choose better heroes? I stand by it that Ross is the George Floyd of Bitcoin bros. Maybe even moreso that they didn't actually commit the murders.