Comment on Well, I guess that settles it

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dylan Roof did get charged with hate crimes and was convicted on all 33 counts, leading to a death sentence. Stacking terrorism charges on top of that would have been pointless.

  Mangione, by contrast, is getting charged in a state without capital punishment. You need the terror charge to make this a First Degree Murder case. Otherwise he’s looking at parole after 15 years.

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  • sean@lemmy.wtf ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This sounds like a legal playbook for would-be assassins

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, we’ll see if he even makes it to trial or if he has an accidental-in-his-cell whoopsie doodle suicide.

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