IMO, the jury convicted the son with malice murder because he had a 'malignant heart', not because he killed from a malignant heart. The kill was from having the gun wrestled away from him, which is self-preservation. It is as far away from malice murder as you can get. The chase may have been malice (but not even that was proven beyond reasonable doubt given Arbery's trespass and encounters with him) but the killing was not; the killing was the tussle for control of a gun. Maybe he hated black people, but it does not necessarily equate with the act of the killing.

As someone who hates human kind, it is nice knowing that will be used against me in the courts.

The jury also convicted cameraman of felony murder because they determined he participated in a felony, whether or not it is logical that he was in some way responsible for Arbery tackling the gun from a guy he didn't know had one.

I am not a fan of this 'everyone is responsible for the murder' thing if they all participate in the same crime. I brought it up elsewhere. It doesn't matter if its a black person aiding another black person in a store robbery, unless they had some kind of foreknowledge or assisted in a cover up I think the law is pretty harsh. But not only did they not have that with the camera guy, the camera guy had no idea the other two were packing weapons.

IMO, this is about the worst example of this type of sentence I've ever heard of. And if black people ask me to be sympathetic if a black person gets in this position in the future, remind me. You KNOW NPR will do this at asome point in the future.