It wasn't a single incident/moment in time.
Dig a little deeper. These articles don't like to focus on the negative which is why they haven't even named the 2 dead innocent victims(Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm,):
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4604687/com-v-ligon-j/
> Appellant and four others imbibed wine and, over the course of approximately two hours, proceeded to rob and stab eight people, killing Jackson Hamm and Charles Pitts. When Appellant was arrested that night, he was carrying a knife sheath on his person. A knife was recovered from the patrol car where Appellant had been sitting.
You seem to be so sure that Mr. Ligon was just a victim drawn into this situation but for all you know he could be a completely cold-hearted killer.
As someone with a friend who was stabbed to death, I personally am glad to live in a society where stabbing people is more gravely punished than a *tragic mistake*.
And that some participants were escalating more than others, and it not to have been a "gang" conspiracy?
This is I think what I am complaining about. So eager to see perpetrators as irredeemable villains, rather than possibly at a wrong place at a wrong time, with the wrong company, and/or they just messed up. There's often a racial thing at the root of that too.
Don't get me wrong, the event sounds like a tragedy. But so is spending 68 years in jail for a 15 year old's tragic mistake. And make no mistake, a white person who did the exact same thing or worse would get off easier.