Another way to look at this is that he got a harsher sentence than he should have on the "stealing from the rich" part which is a crime, because he was so unpop

Another way to look at this is that he got a harsher sentence than he should have on the "stealing from the rich" part which is a crime, because he was so unpopular on the extorting the poor part which (sadly) isn't. Whether that's how we would like the system to function is, of course, up for debate.