Comment on Well, I guess that settles it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day agoDylan 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.
sean@lemmy.wtf 17 hours ago
This sounds like a legal playbook for would-be assassins
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 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.