Nightclub Deaths

Daniel Biechele, the Great White manager who torched that Rhode Island nightclub back in 2003, has just pled guilty to 200 counts of manslaughter.  His sentence?  10 years.

Yep.  10 years.

100 people died in that fire.  Quite a few more received severe burns.  Each defendant was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for each death.  So that’s 18.25 days in jail for each manslaughter count, or about a month and one week served for each person murdered.  Wonderful.  I realize that each case has mitigating circumstances, but one hundred people are dead because of an “oopsie”.

Murder a man, do 30 days.  Welcome to Rhode Island.

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