I disagree with your assessment for all the reasons other people have said. However, the other thing I'd point out is that murder is rarely a federal crime - i

I disagree with your assessment for all the reasons other people have said. However, the other thing I'd point out is that murder is rarely a federal crime - it's usually a state crime. I was curious as to when it becomes a federal crime and found this: https://www.greenspunlaw.com/library/when-murder-is-a-federal-crime.cfm https://www.greenspunlaw.com/library/when-murder-is-a-federa... Dollars-to-donuts that the vast majority of federal murders here were drug related. Not that I think the that makes it in any way better, but in many ways gang violence is more of a war than an individual, targeted killing. These types of circumstances matter when it comes to sentencing, and I'm not surprised at all that SBF's sentencing is longer than you "average" federal murder sentencing.