Cheng Le wanted to create "simple" and "easy" pills to murder people
No more than a few grains of the poison can kill a human being.
The court heard how online Le wrote: “If you can make them into simple and easy death pills, they’d become bestsellers.”
Chillingly, Chinese national Le warned he would be “trying out new methods in the future” and “it is death itself we are selling here".
He added: “The more risk-free, the more efficient we can make it, the better.”
He was arrested in December 2014 after prosecutors said he contacted an FBI covert employee online using an encrypted messaging service and asked if he sells ricin.
No more than a few grains of ricin can kill a human
His parents wrote letter urging the judge for leniency and called their son, who had been accepted to several Ivy League schools, immature.
But Judge Alison Nathan said the “horrible, serious and quite terrifying offence” required a severe sentence.
No one was harmed by the twisted plot to produce the death pills after investigators tracked Le on the Dark Web – an online criminal marketplace.
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