If he'd "just" run a marketplace for illegal everythings, you might be able to make an argument. When it crosses into "casually ordering multiple murders he be

If he'd "just" run a marketplace for illegal everythings, you might be able to make an argument. When it crosses into "casually ordering multiple murders he believed happened," then, no, I'm sorry, you're not just running a marketplace. You deserve to be behind bars for a long, long time. The only reason that nobody actually died from that was because he was surrounded by scammers and informants, and didn't realize this. But incompetence is no defense against ordering multiple murders. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/inside-silk-road-staged-assassinations https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/inside-silk-road-staged-... has a lot of details on the absurdities surrounding it, but DPR genuinely did believe he'd ordered people killed.