Sad. This guy used his skills in a way to make crime far easier , safer, more efficient, and above all anonymous.
This serves as a warning to others, but the technique is out there now, already replicated. At first I had some sympathy for a young man being locked up w/o parole, then I read where he tried to have several people killed who may have interfered with his plans. Nothing innocent about hiring a murderer at all. He’s still dangerous if there is any connection to the net.
The murder for hire charges were dropped by the prosecution yet the judge used these accusations as justification for the life sentence.
Prohibition was vicious too. It attracted the unsavory and evil like moths to a flame.
People look in the wrong direction for salvation from their sins when they blame some inanimate thing for them. If nobody welcomed street drugs there would not be a market.
You need to ask yourself, if that's the case why in hell was he not convicted of attempted murder?